Re: Proposed Modification to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale...Cat 5 157 or higher
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 7/18/2011, 10:41 pm
They should have considered doing this when they made the change to a wind only scale. It is definitely a good idea. I have seen software act incorrectly due to this problem.

Any changes to the scale I guess takes time, even this minor. There is software that needs to be updated and any change I guess needs to allow comment from people. I know I'll need to make some changes to my site when it happens. My recon system uses the exact knots to define categories for one of its features and I have places that denote the actual scale in my best track system. I also just realized that when I created the Google Earth best track data for every storm in history I have the scale in there when it gets up to the categories they are changing. That means I will have to reprocess all the data again when it changes.
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