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The Hurricane Category Scale Is Broken
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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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Manage episode 498776293 series 46737
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.
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC
https://neptunestudios.info
If you like what we do, you can help us!
- Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth
- Buy our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth
- Buy our book: https://minuteearth.com/books
- Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com
- Share with your friends and family
- Leave us a comment (we read them!)
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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