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Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five.
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Hurricane Dorian
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2019
Hurricane Dorian was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone, which became the most intense on record to strike the Bahamas. It is tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane for the strongest landfall in the Atlantic basin in terms of maximum sustained winds. It is…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Saffir–Simpson scale
Hurricane intensity scale
The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) is a tropical cyclone intensity scale that classifies hurricanes—which in the Western Hemisphere are tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms—into five categories distinguished by…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
The Bahamas
Country in North America
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country located within the Lucayan Archipelago. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. It comprises more than 3,000 islands, cays and islets in the Atlantic…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
September 2
Day of the year
September 2 is the 245th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 120 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)