When was the last time a hurricane hit the Panhandle?
When was the last time a hurricane hit the Panhandle? Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle four years ago, becoming one of only four Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S. Michael made landfall Oct. 10, 2018, near Mexico Beach, Florida.
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.
When was the last hurricane in Florida 2023?
Idalia made landfall at Keaton Beach in Florida's Big Bend area (wind speeds around 125 mph) as a Category 3 hurricane on Aug. 30, after briefly undergoing a rapid intensification to a Category 4 storm overnight. This area had not been hit by a strong storm in 125 years.
Why was Katrina so bad?
During and after Hurricane Katrina, many of those levees and floodwalls were overtopped and several were breached, allowing billions of gallons of water from the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Borgne, and Lake Pontchartrain to flow into New Orleans and flood major portions of the city.