About Dorian - that massive hurricane off the coast of Florida - and its place in history.

2:50 am pst Monday:  It is currently moving at one mile an hour with winds of 185 mph  . . . .  the second strongest hurrican in history with Allen (the first storm to be named; the first storm to achieve 190mph winds)  being the strongest (190 mph).  As I write., Dorian is churning at 165 mpn.  Officials are telling folks that the aftermath of this storm will be all about rebuilding rather than repairing homes and structures. Understand that storms above 39 mph officially closes bridges. Dorian is currently stalled over Freeport in the Bahams.  We can expect to read of devastating news because of this storm.  

Hurricane Allen was an extremely powerful Cape Verde hurricane that struck the Caribbean, eastern and northern Mexico, and southern Texas in August 1980. The first named storm and first tropical cyclone of the 1980 Atlantic hurricane season, it was one of the strongest hurricanes in recorded history. It was one of the few hurricanes to reach Category 5 status on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale on three separate occasions, and spent more time as a Category 5 than all but two other Atlantic hurricanes. Allen is the only hurricane in the recorded history of the Atlantic basin to achieve sustained winds of 190 mph

There was an earlier storm that registered 190 mph that occurred in 1935,  well before such storms were given names by the National Weather Bureau.

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