April 19 (UPI) -- When Hurricane Michael hit the Florida panhandle last fall, it was a Category 5 storm -- the first to hit the United States in a quarter-century and just one of four ever to make landfall at that strength, meteorologists said Friday.
Michael was classified a Category 4 storm when it arrived on Oct. 10, but the National Hurricane Center revised the storm to Category 5 strength in a new analysis Friday.