[John H K]

Moving too fast to intensify. Needs to slow below 10-12MPH to strengthen.

Completely, 100% wrong. For whatever reason that myth has developed the last few years.

12 mph is 10 kts. Literally hundreds of storms have strengthened to hurricanes moving 10-20 kts.

Allen in 1980 went to Cat 5 three different times moving 20 kts or even higher at times.

[GatekeeperBookman]

Thanks! I am 'gone idiot', I suppose. I do recall a number of very big ones which did slow & grow something awful. Recall that really big one-Gilbert about 12-13 years ago? Wow-lucky it hit in Mexico where few people lived.

[catfish1957]

Also I seem to remember a storm that hit Bermuda in the '90's that intensified while clipping a long at a record near 40 mph. I remember how stumped the so called experts were then.

Again the only thing predictable about a hurricane is its unpredictability.

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