Re: Concerned that so-called weakening may mislead people
Posted by
weathercritic on 8/26/2011, 10:54 pm
| People can understand it, but only to a point; by the time you get even the professionals talking about "strong" versus "weak" within individial category levels, the scale ceases to have the effect that it was designed for. Similar for calling something a "minimal hurricane". That is a scientific statement, true, but for the public, they aren't going to care about the science -- they simply hear words like "weak" and "minimal" and immediately think they are out of danger. So, yes, the Saffir-Simpson Scale is useful for the public (maybe not so much for the science community) simply because it is a simple tool, but that simplicity is lost as soon as additional value judgments are applied to it. |
113
In this thread:
Post A Reply
This thread has been archived and can no longer receive replies.