The Hurricane Category Scale Is Broken
The current hurricane category scale doesn’t accurately convey the danger of a storm, because it doesn’t account for a hurricane's most destructive factors.
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Storm surge: a sea level rise caused by strong winds pushing the water and a change in atmospheric pressure of a storm.
- Hurricane: a tropical cyclone occurring in the Atlantic Ocean or northeastern Pacific Ocean
- Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale: the current scale used to categorize hurricanes from 1 to 5 based on the hurricane’s maximum sustained wind speed.
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