re: What has been the strongest recorded hurricane to be in the Gulf of Mexico?

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But wasn't Camille same winds of 175 but 900 on the pressure vs Katrina at 902?

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Camille had 200 mph winds.

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Kamala

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That’s racist. You bigot!

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What’s racist about a hurricane named after an Indian?

Camille was a perfect hurricane. Small and fiercely compact. It’s still the modern standard.

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where SwLA always feels inferior because Katrina got more attention than Rita.

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Try being the Mississippi gulf coast and Katrina.

I feel like when you get to these level hurricanes it's the difference between 102 degrees heat index and 108 degrees: it sucks, to say the least.

Nobody is a, "winner."

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I thought it was Gilbert.

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It was for a while. It was huge. Peak strength it almost covered the entire Gulf.

Camille was stronger than Katrina at landfall.

Katrina peaked in the middle of the Gulf and weakened some before landfall . Katrina was Much larger. Surge prolly worse.

I looked and it appears Allen hit its peak of 190mph just north of the Yucatan as it left the Yucatan channel into the gulf.

Wasn’t there one in the 1780s that was supposedly massive? Affected the American revolution somehow.

Is that the one that spurred off tornadoes that ripped through the British army and skipped over the Americans? Think I read that in one of O Riellys books.