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Encyclopedia > 1973 Pacific hurricane season

Hurricane Ava formed on the 2nd of June 1973 south of Mexico and moved out towards sea. Sometime beetween the 8th and the 10th at its peak intensity at category 5 Ava reached an astonishing pressure of 915mb. Sometime during the 10th Ava weakened and turned northward and dissipated on the 12th. This article is about weather phenomena. ... The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a scale classifying hurricanes by the intensity of their sustained winds, developed in 1969 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and National Hurricane Center director Bob Simpson. ... Atmospheric pressure is the pressure caused by the weight of air above any area in the Earths atmosphere. ...


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