A Category 5 Atlantic hurricane is a tropical cyclone that reaches Category 5 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, within the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator.

The storm became a rare category-5 hurricane on September 5th, with maximum sustained winds of 185 MPH. This made Irma the strongest hurricane ever observed in the open Atlantic …

Sep 4, 2025 · Hurricane Irma was a powerful category 5 Atlantic Ocean hurricane in 2017. Irma caused significant damage and deaths across the Caribbean and Florida, with sustained winds …

2 days ago · Most Category 5 hurricanes in one season in 20 years: The last — and only other — Atlantic hurricane season with at least three Category 5 hurricanes was the record-smashing …

Irma was a long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that reached category 5 intensity on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. The catastrophic hurricane made seven landfalls, four of …

Sep 5, 2017 · Hurricane Irma intensified into an extremely dangerous high-end Category 5 storm with top sustained winds of 180 mph on Tuesday morning, putting it among the strongest …

Irma was eventually deemed a Category 4 hurricane as it approached the Leeward Islands. Just hours later, with more rapid intensification, Irma was upgraded to a Category 5 hurricane at …

On September 8th, it made landfall in the Bahamas as a category 4 hurricane, ending a 60-hour period of category 5 intensity (the second longest such period on record behind the 1932 …

Sep 6, 2022 · Irma was the eleventh tropical cyclone to form during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. It became one of several very intense and destructive hurricanes that season. It was …

Hurricane Irma grew into a dangerous Category 5 storm, the most powerful seen in the Atlantic in over a decade, and roared toward islands in the northeast Caribbean Tuesday on a path that …