NEW STEP BY STEP MAP FOR NHC

There can be a vital difficulty with how hurricane categories are measured: The Saffir-Simpson scale only normally takes into account a storm’s utmost sustained windspeed, and disregards other threats, like expected rainfall or storm surge. Even a Category one hurricane or perhaps a tropical storm can carry really serious damage and chance to lif

Westerly wind shear then caused Frances to weaken to the category two hurricane by the time it passed more than the northwestern Bahamas within the 4th . Frances created landfall near Stuart, Florida just after midnight around the fifth with 105 m.p.h. (category 2) most winds. Frances progressively weakened since it moved slowly and gradually throu