Hurricane Milton Shows How a Storm’s Category Doesn’t Tell the Full Story

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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.

https://www.wired.com/story/hurricane-milton-storm-category-doesnt-tell-full-story/