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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Patrick Whittle

What makes a storm a hurricane? The dangers across 5 categories

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Severe weather can target any part of the globe, but each year the Atlantic hurricane season brings heavy rain, strong wind, storm surge and sometimes catastrophic devastation to locations from the Caribbean islands and Central America all the way up through the United States and into Canada.

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