Upon landfall at Gulf Shores, Alabama, Hurricane Sally’s winds were clocked at 165 kilometres per hour as piers were ripped away by the Category 2 storm.
City police in Pensacola told residents not to drive around looking at damage due to high winds.
Sally is the 18th named storm in the Atlantic this year and the eighth of tropical storm or hurricane strength to hit the United States. There are three named storms in the Atlantic, none now threatening the United States. Hurricane Sally made landfall as a Category 2 storm, causing dangerous flooding from Florida to Mississippi.Hurricanes have increased in their intensity and destructiveness since the 1980s as the climate warms, according to researchers at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Climate change is also a factor in the increasing frequency of record-breaking wildfires plaguing the western United States, scientists say.
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