Hurricane Felix rapidly strengthened once again to category 5 intensity before striking the northern coast of Nicaragua yesterday morning with winds of 160mph.
A couple notes:
Hurricane Dean came ashore just last month as a Category 5 storm, and Felix's landfall marked the first time that two Category 5 hurricanes have hit land in a season since 1886, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Only 31 such storms have been recorded in the Atlantic, including eight in the last five seasons.
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