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.
A ferocious typhoon in the western Pacific Ocean made landfall early Friday on the fragile islands of the Philippines and this weekend is expected to churn toward Vietnam and Laos. Super Typhoon Haiyan has top sustained winds of 190 mph, equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.