what are the top five worst hurricanes in the world?
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['Typhoon Nina. ... ', 'The Great Hurricane. Barbados, 1780. ... ', 'Galveston Hurricane. Galveston, TX, 1900. ... ', 'Hurricane Katrina. Gulf Coast U.S., New Orleans, 2005. ... ', 'Labor Day Hurricane. Florida Keys, 1935. ... ', 'Hurricane Ike. Cuba and Texas Gulf coast, 2008. ... ', 'Hurricane Harvey. Southeast Texas, 2017. ... ', 'Hurricane Andrew. The Bahamas and Florida, 1992.']
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April 4, 2019 - The Colorado State University Tropical Meteorology Project team predicts a slightly below-average Atlantic hurricane season. The team forecasts 13 named storms and five hurricanes. May 23, 2019 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts a near-normal 2019 hurricane season.
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['Agnes (1972)', 'Alicia (1983)', 'Allen (1980)', 'Allison (tropical storm, 2001)', 'Andrew (1992)', 'Anita (1977)', 'Audrey (1957)', 'Betsy (1965)']
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Category 5 is as powerful as a hurricane can get under the Saffir-Simpson scale. These monster storms pack wind speeds of 157 miles per hour or more.
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Hurricane Katrina—considered among the worst storms in U.S. history—did reach Category 5 status in August 2005, but it downgraded to Category 3 by the time it made landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi.
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Four Category 5 hurricanes have made landfall in the United States. The most common state to be hit is Florida, which was hit by Michael in 2018, Andrew in 1992 and the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. Louisiana and Mississippi were both hit by Camille in 1969.
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['El Salvador (61.80)', 'Jamaica (57)', 'Honduras (41.7)', 'Belize (37.9)', 'South Africa (35.9)', 'Lesotho (Bahamas)', 'Brazil (30.5)', 'Saint Lucia (29.6)']
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Negative Effects of Hurricanes. Storm surge, tornadoes, heavy rainfall, high winds, riptide, and death are the most major effects of hurricanes. While a hurricane is approaching the coast, the sea level increases swiftly. Since the sea level rises, the amount of water can cause many deaths from drowning.
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Just four countries — the Philippines, China, Japan and Bangladesh — are the targets of more natural disasters than anywhere else on Earth. They are the world's riskiest countries and are the most vulnerable to storms, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, wildfires and landslides, among other calamities.
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On November 1, 2013, a low pressure area was spotted over the Caroline Islands in Kiribati. It moved westward and intensified into a tropical depression on November 3. It became a tropical storm and earned the international name “Haiyan” on November 4 and eventually escalated into a typhoon category on November 5.
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That's because hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are all the same weather phenomenon. Scientists just call these storms different things depending on where they occur. In the Atlantic and northern Pacific, the storms are called "hurricanes," after the Caribbean god of evil, named Hurrican.
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The most powerful Atlantic storm ever recorded is still due to hit Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas, and is expected in Florida and Georgia by Sunday. At least 14 people have been killed as Irma ripped through the Caribbean. These islands were the first to be hit by Irma.
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Based on the total number of named storms, there has been an increase since the start of the 20th century. Category 5 hurricanes are the most severe but also the most rare – there have been just three in the past decade. ... However, new data suggests that hurricanes could become stronger, slower and wetter in the future.
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['Galveston Hurricane of 1900. The “Great” Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is by far the deadliest natural disaster to impact the United States. ... ', 'Miami Hurricane of 1926. ... ', 'Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928. ... ', 'Hurricane Andrew of 1992.', 'Hurricane Katrina of 2005.']
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Hurricane Dorian: Path of destruction. Hurricane Dorian - the most powerful storm to hit the Bahamas since records began - has left widespread devastation, at least 43 dead and many more still missing days after the storm passed.
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In 2016, Hurricane Matthew became the first Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic since Hurricane Felix in 2007. September 2017 marked the first time two hurricanes had attained Category 5 strength (Irma and Maria) in the same season since 2007 (Dean and Felix).