KINDERFELD posted...masterpug53 posted...
Not to be nitpicky, but is Dorian officially the strongest? Last I checked it's max sustained windspeed was 185 mph, which would put it at or just below Irma's max. Plus Irma was huuuuuge compared to Dorian.
Yes its official.
Irma's max was 177mph.
To be fair, the official statement is that it is the strongest hurricane in modern history to hit the Bahamas. Does not mean it is the strongest hurricane. There have been many hurricanes to reach 185mph winds, more recently Hurricane Wilma in 2005 and another storm as far back as 1935. One hurricane in the 1980s reached 190mph winds. And if you want to include the Pacific, hurricane Patricia in 2015 reached a max of 215mph winds and is considered the strongest tropical cyclone on record in the world in terms of wind speed.
Though climate change is a real problem, as someone else has said in this thread already, hurricanes aren't the best indication of it.