Meteorological History of Hurricane Georges (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The meteorological history of Hurricane Georges spanned seventeen days from September15 to October1, 1998. Hurricane Georges began as a tropical wave that moved off the coast of Africa during mid-September 1998. Tracking westward, the wave spawned an area of low pressure two days later, which quickly strengthened into a tropical depression. On September16, the depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Georges, and to Hurricane Georges the next day. Over the next few days, an eye developed and deep Atmospheric convection persisted around it. Strong outflow and warm sea surface temperatures allowed the storm to intensify as it tracked towards the west-northwest. The storm reached its peak intensity on September20 with winds of 155mph (250km/h), just below Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, and a barometric pressure of 937mbar (hPa; 27.68inHg).