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Hurricane Melissa is now the strongest storm on the planet this year
- kaycebasques 1y agoIs the big US military build up on the coast of Venezuela being affected by this?
- jeffbee 1y agoOutdated information. It is now the strongest tropical cyclone ever observed.
- perihelions 1y ago892 mbar / 185 mph (295 kph) winds—tied as 3rd strongest Atlantic cyclone by minimum pressure, and (I assume) tied as 1st strongest at landfall (tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane), https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCUAT3+shtml/281401.shtml https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCUAT3+shtml/281401... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlantic_hurricane_records#Most_intense_by_minimum_barometric_pressure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlantic_hurricane_rec...