At one point on Monday it was a super typhoon, the same size and speed as a category five hurricane.

在周一的时候它曾一度是超级台风，和五级飓风同样的大小和速度。

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New Jersey is not in a seismically active zone but meteorologists say the coastal state is long overdue for a Category Five hurricane.

新泽西州不是活跃的地震活动区，但气象学家说这个沿海的州早就应该遇到一次五级飓风了。

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Just five minutes later, the U.S. National hurricane Center (NHC) classified Celia as a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 215 kilometers per hour (135 miles per hour).

五分钟后，美国国家飓风中心(NHC)将西莉亚归类为伴随每小时215千米(每小时135英里)持续风力的4级飓风。

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So it was that warm water that turned it into a category five hurricane?

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Preliminary calculations suggest that it could reduce the strength of cyclonic storms substantially, perhaps weakening a category five hurricane to a category four or three and thus preventing billions of dollars of damage and the cost of human lives lost.

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Any given bit of the coast seems likely to be hit by a hurricane of category four or five (the worst sort), on average, once every 300 years.

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