Looks like it is 7 mph short of cat 5 to me.
“Looks like it is 7 mph short of cat 5 to me.”
Yeah but the winds are not uniform across the whole mass. My neighbor lost his weather station at 192 MPH during Charley but the path of destruction was only a couple of miles apart. If you were out of that narrow band there was no damage at all. And even inside the band well build homes did fine.
The most damage comes on the windward side of an even modest storm that moves slow.