Hurricane Irene currently has sustained winds of 105 mph with gusts to 115.
The Galveston hurricane of 1900 made landfall in Galveston with peak sustained wind speeds of 145 mph and higher gusts.
It's peak sustained winds were 175 mph, with gusts to 215 mph.
True.
If you are in a high rise building, estimates of wind speeds for Hurricane Sandy will be in excess of 110 mph.
There were strong gusts of wind all throughout the season.
At peak intensity Hurricane Sandy struck Cuba with sustained winds of 110 mph. By the time Sandy hi the U.S. winds had weakened to 80 mph with some stronger gusts.
The minimum wind speed for a storm to be classified as a hurricane is 74 miles per hour (119 kilometers per hour). This is known as hurricane-force winds and corresponds to a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
A hurricane.
High gusts of wind can cause great destruction they can destroy your house or shelter, and blow debris which can cause harm to you or your animals.
Solar wind is comes from the sun and can cause evaporation to any water that is not within our Earth's magnetic field. In humans it can cause cancer and death if we were exposed to too much of it.
The pressure of the sun causes the wind to blow.
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