Hurricane Milton Shows How a Storm’s Category Doesn’t Tell the Full Story
- Posted on October 9, 2024
- By Wired
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Hurricane Milton Shows How a Storm’s Category Doesn’t Tell the Full Story
Milton’s reclassification to a Category 3 storm suggests it is weakening, but the scale accounts only for wind speed and not hurricane size, storm surge heights, or rainfall—which are all catastrophically large.
