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

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

[html]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.[/html]

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