Mitch originated as a tropical storm over the southwestern Caribbean Sea on October 22, 1998, and quickly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane by the 26th, with a central pressure of 905 mb. It remains the second-strongest October hurricane on record and is tied for the eighth most-intense Atlantic hurricane overall. After making landfall in […]
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