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Hurricane Maria went through an astonishingly quick transformation from a minimal hurricane to a Category 5 monster in less than 24 hours. As of 9 p.m. ET, Maria had maximum sustained winds of 160 ...

and two of them were major hurricanes, which are those that are Category 3 or stronger. Beryl was the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record in the Atlantic basin and had a major impact in the ...