Should we change the way we talk about hurricanes? For meteorologists, it's a challenge.
If we learn only one thing from Hurricane Florence, it should be this: Don’t judge a hurricane by its category.The heavy rainfall and flooding from Florence — and the 51 people left dead in its wake (40 in North Carolina) — have renewed debate about the wind speed-based classification system currently used for hurricanes.Florence was forecast to make landfall as a Category 4 storm. People on the coast — and inland — took the storm seriously, evacuating and prepping for what […]
