GAINESVILLE, Ga. — America is now in the midst of hurricane season. Florida was the latest victim of a hurricane, when Hurricane Idalia made landfall near Keaton Beach, Fla., at 7:45 a.m. on Aug. 30, as a category 3 storm in what is known as the “Big Bend” area of the state on the Gulf of Mexico coast.
The National Hurricane Center defines a hurricane or a typhoon as “a tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained surface wind (using the U.S. 1-minute average) is 64 kt (74 mph or 119 km/hr.) or more.
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