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Three 2017 Hurricanes added to list of Costliest Tropical Cyclones

28 March 2018 No Comments

Last year’s hurricane season was definitely one for the record books. While national focus on the affected areas has waned, cleanup still continues in many regions. Yesterday marked the last day that Puerto Ricans could apply for assistance (archive) from FEMA. In the Houston area, the Houston Chronicle reports (archive) renovations continue at the Houston […]

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No, we don’t need to add a ‘Category 6’ to the hurricane scale

8 September 2017 No Comments

Hurricanes are categorized according to the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, which organizes tropical cyclones with winds greater than 74 mph into categories from 1 to 5. Each category comes with a description of what damage can be expected in an area that the center of the storm passes over. Occasionally, I see talk of a […]