AN UNBIASED VIEW OF SAFFIR SIMPSON SCALE

Westerly wind shear then caused Frances to weaken to a category 2 hurricane from the time it handed about the northwestern Bahamas on the 4th . Frances designed landfall near Stuart, Florida just after midnight to the fifth with a hundred and five m.p.h. (category 2) highest winds. Frances slowly weakened since it moved slowly over the Florida Peni