What did Donald Trump claim about disaster aid on 14 Sep 2017?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
And in Florida, you got hit with the strongest winds ever recorded. It actually hit the Keys with a—it was a category 5.
Wrong on both counts. Irma hit the Keys as a category 4 with 115-knot winds, and the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and Andrew hit Florida harder, as category 5 storms.
NOAA's list of U.S. hurricane landfalls rates Irma's Florida landfall at category 4 with maximum winds of 115 kt, and rates two earlier Florida hurricanes at category 5 with stronger winds: the 1935 Labor Day hurricane at 160 kt and Andrew in 1992 at 145 kt (NOAA Hurricane Research Division). The National Hurricane Center's report on Irma says it made landfall in the Florida Keys as a category 4 hurricane (NOAA National Hurricane Center).
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- Remarks at a White House Historical Association reception.
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