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Hurricane Season Is Still Far From Over

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (WJZ) ― Hurricane Dean packed quite a punch as it zoomed through the Yucatan Peninsula with wind speeds as high as 160 miles per hour, and hurricane season is still far from over.

Jessica Kartalija reports from a wind tunnel at the University of Maryland, showing just how strong the winds can get.

This is the anniversary of when Hurricane Andrew, a category three hurricane, hit the US back in 1992.

We're smack in the middle of hurricane season.

"It's going to peak in a few weeks, and when it peaks, that's just typically when we've seen most hurricanes over the past hundred years," said Wallace Hogsett from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies.

Kartalija headed to the wind tunnel at the University of Maryland for some perspective as to just how strong these winds are.

"You will be as though you are standing on the beach with an on-shore wind when they say its category three," said Jewel Barlow from the Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel.

The flip of a switch fires up a giant fan and chances are - in what scientists predict to be an above-normal season - we could still see another hurricane reach speeds as high as Dean hit the US.

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