Hurricane Scale Un-Weighted

摘要

This hurricane season, the NWS will decouple the Saffir-Simp-son Hurricane wind scale from predictions of storm surge and flooding. According to NWS, the scale was changed because storm surge is dependent on a combination of factors, the variability of which can translate into surge values and associated flooding significantly outside the ranges suggested in the original scale. Those factors include the storm's intensity, size, motion, and barometric pressure, as well as the depth of the near-shore waters and local topographical features.