JdPat04 wrote:Beryl becomes the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record, beating Hurricane Emily from July 16, 2005.
That year went on to be the second-most intense hurricane season on record. Emily and now Beryl are the only two Category 5 hurricanes in the month of July.
Hurricane Beryl was already the strongest June hurricane, the easternmost hurricane to develop in the month of June and the earliest Category 4 storm on record. Records go back to the 1800s.
I wonder how they measured wind speeds and barometric pressure in the 1800’s given we were still shitting in outhouses. :thought