Rita now a 5
Rita has now strengthened to a category 5 hurricane. Have there ever been two category 5 hurricanes the close together? According to the Columbia Encyclopedia:
Only three category-5 storms have hit the United States since record-keeping began—the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, which devastated the Florida Keys, killing 600; Hurricane Camille in 1969, which ravaged the Mississippi coast, killing 256; and Andrew in 1992, which leveled much of Homestead, Fla. Hurricane Mitch in 1998 was a category-5 storm at peak intensity over the western Caribbean, and Gilbert in 1988 was a category-5 storm at peak intensity and is the strongest Atlantic tropical cyclone of record.
Add two more within a month in 2005.
