How To Predict Hurricanes

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Hello I'm weather announcer Melissa Schenk and on behalf of Expert Village today we're going to be talking about the weather. In this clip now let's talk about hurricanes in the earlier segment we've been talking the difference between watch and warnings another segment we've been talking about tornadoes. So now let's talk about hurricanes much like tornadoes have there own scale the fugita scale but you can interpret the different types of categories hurricanes, have a different scale not the fugita scale but the Saffir Simpson Hurricane Scale so when look at the categories here I've got it on another table for you. There are 5 different categories when you think of hurricanes Katrina the devastation that that caused that of course without thinking was a category 5, when your measuring that type of damage but an easy way to range and gage hurricanes of course to looking at the wind speed. So when your looking at category 1 the wind speed 74 to 95 miles per hour, 2 is 96 to 110 miles per hour gets a bit stronger. You jump up to 4 and 5 well a category 5 is wind gust or wind speeds of 155 miles per hour or greater, so you can see the different types of effects that these hurricanes cause as well but this is a way that meteorologist can relate the information to viewers to an audience in a television setting and it's at least to measure the type of hurrincane and correspond and relay that information to the people listening so if they know to category 5 hurricane they know it's very serious nature, if it's a category 1 or 2 still serious but of course not as serious as a category 5.

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