What is the difference between a tropical storm and a hurricane?
What is the difference between a tropical storm and a hurricane? Hurricanes are tropical cyclones with sustained winds of at least 74 miles per hour, while tropical storms have sustained winds of 39 to 73 miles per hour. Because of their higher wind speeds, hurricanes are more destructive than tropical storms.
Is a Category 6 hurricane possible?
There is officially no such thing as a Category 6 hurricane. But the idea of revising or adding to the scale has been discussed by some climate scientists who believe the current categories may not be adequate for increasingly extreme storms in the future.
Why do hurricanes hit at night?
The reality of the situation is that there is no scientific or meteorological correlation that determines whether a storm makes landfall at night or during the day. In fact, over the past four season, most of the hurricanes have made landfall during the day.