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Originally posted by DWG
That is scary, but what does it mean? 
I like to follow this stuff, but most of the time, I don't understand what I'm looking at.
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Hurricanes have very low pressures. The lower the pressure the more intense the storm is considered. The normal sea level pressure in the US is 1013.25 mb a hurricane's pressure drops much lower. The lowest hurricane pressure on record was not long ago, Hurricane Wilma in 2005 had a central pressure of 882 mb!!!! That is some serious low pressure. The max winds with Wilma were 175 mph. The Labor Day hurricane of 1935 had a low pressure of 892 mb and winds of 200 mph! While this hurricane had stronger winds, the lowest pressure wins out on the intensity scale.
