SuperTyphoon Tip is supposed to be the largest, and debatably most intense cyclone for any basin (1350 miles in diameter –in the NW pacific), so if you want to give her ‘mad props’ from her peers, you can equip her with that info as well. Also, stress the fact that girth is not in any way indicative of strength. Some of the strongest land-falling hurricanes in US history have all been, size wise, meteorological pipsqueaks in comparison to some of their larger brethren. Katrina is obviously a horrible exception.

Funny Floyd story: I remember my school in Miami being (fortunately it was needlessly) cancelled due to Floyd. We were all very happy for this, as it was the height of ‘sex ed’ week in middle school.

Pertinent visual size comparison between Andrew, and a weaker albiet much larger Floyd, reiterating what I was talking about above:

http://www.noaa.gov/images/hurr-floydandrew-compare.jpg