How bad is hurricane season going to be in 2023?
How bad is hurricane season going to be in 2023? NOAA's update to the 2023 outlook — which covers the entire six-month hurricane season that ends on Nov. 30 — calls for 14-21 named storms (winds of 39 mph or greater), of which 6-11 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or greater). Of those, 2-5 could become major hurricanes (winds of 111 mph or greater).
Has a hurricane ever reached 200 mph?
The magnitude of intensification was poorly forecast and both forecast models and meteorologists suffered from record-high prediction errors. On October 23, two Hurricane Hunter missions both revealed the storm to have acquired maximum sustained winds of 205 mph (330 km/h) and a pressure of 879 mbar (hPa; 25.96 inHg).