Visit our live radar map to view the track ... is rated by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which assigns each storm a rating of 1-5 based on its wind speed. However it's important to ...
The typical maximum wind speed limit for storms in the Pacific is about 322 km/h, while the maximum limit in the Atlantic is about 290 km/h. These limits were calculated using data from 2017.
Irma, at times a category five hurricane, packed winds of up to 295km ... Sea temperatures contributed to Irma's power Warm oceans, along with wind speed and direction, are the two key ingredients ...
For most of the storms — 40 of them — the extra oomph from warmer oceans made the storms jump an entire hurricane category ... change factor goosed wind speed so much that the winds increased ...