With Hurricane Irma roaring over the Caribbean and hurrican José waiting to make its appearance, it is all too obvious that hurricanes are huge disruptors of our daily lives.
There are a lot of factors that go into the deadliness of a hurricane: location, traveling speed, air pressure and wind speeds. We analysed all hurricanes on record for the last hundred years or so and came to this list of top-10 strongest hurricanes, measured by peak 1 minute wind speeds.