What was the biggest hurricane ever?
Michael Wyllie: In size, I would say Mitch which was a storm that went into the Gulf of Mexico and did quite a bit of damage was a category 5 and the size of the storm filled most of the Gulf as it moved towards South America. It was probably one of the largest storms we have seen in the last couple of years. It was over 500 miles across. Question: How do you know all this stuff about hurricanes? Michael Wyllie: I’ve been with the National Weather Service for 27 years and have spent the last 14 years as a Meteorologist in Charge. In the Northeast part of the country, I’ve been working in weather for the past 22 years in both Boston and New York. In order to learn more about hurricanes, you are basically going to learn math and science. You are working with the sciences but it’s a lot of math and a lot of computers. Computers are very important for forecasting, and they are why we are able to create the models so fast. As the technology gets better, the models get better and faster. Que
