Showing posts with label Hurricane Humberto Was Historic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hurricane Humberto Was Historic. Show all posts

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Hurricane Humberto Was Historic

This is from "senior hurricane specialist James Franklin of the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami- FL:

"To put this development in perspective - no tropical cyclone in the historical record has ever reached this intensity at a faster rate near landfall. It would be nice to know, someday, why this happened."

Humberto went from a small area of scattered showers and thunderstorms to a full-blown Cat-1 hurricane with winds of 85 m.p.h. in less than 24 hours. So far- there is one death attributed to Humberto.
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