The main benefit of pleading no contest is that the conviction canât be used against you later in a civil (non-criminal) lawsuit that may come out of the criminal activity.
Surface atmospheric pressure in the center of a hurricane tends to be extremely low. The lowest pressure reading ever recorded for a hurricane (typhoon Tip, 1979) is 870 millibars (mb). However, most storms have an average pressure of 950 millibars. To be classified as a hurricane, sustained wind speeds must be greater than 118 kilometers per hour at the storm's center.
Meteorologists use barometric pressure as one way to rank the intensity of a low pressure system. Simply put: the lower the atmospheric pressure, the more powerful a storm is. Most of Wilmington's strongest storms have been tropical systems -- 13 of the top 20 in fact. Official barometric pressure readings in Wilmington began in 1871 and continue through the present day.