Within the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, A serious hurricane usually means a Category 3 or increased. The scale features five categories dependant on the storm's sustained wind speeds. In addition, it estimates possible damage to property, starting from "some damage" to "catastrophic." , experts propose the growing intensification of tropi

Westerly wind shear then prompted Frances to weaken to the category two hurricane because of the time it handed about the northwestern Bahamas to the 4th . Frances designed landfall near Stuart, Florida just after midnight on the 5th with one zero five m.p.h. (category two) most winds. Frances little by little weakened because it moved gradually th