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

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Each year the Atlantic hurricane season brings heavy rain, strong wind, storm surge and sometimes catastrophic devastation.

Forecasters at the Miami -based National Hurricane Center monitor the storms from the time they develop until they dissipate.

This year , the 2024 hurricane season was expected to be extremely active.

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale rates hurricanes from one to five .

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