Matt Lanza

So if I tell you a category three is coming, you're going to be like, oh crap, this is bad.

If I tell you a category one is coming, you're going to be like, oh, okay, do I need to worry?

Like, I don't think so.

And the reality is it depends on the type of storm.

So that's where the category scale really becomes

frankly, useless at that point.

And then you factor in rain.

Hurricane Harvey was a big storm, did a lot of damage.

It was a Category 4 hurricane when it made landfall in Texas.

But the worst element of Harvey was the inland flooding that it produced, and it was catastrophic.

And the Saffir-Simpson scale is going to tell you this thing's a tropical storm.

But the problem is people love the categories.

Like people still want to know, what is this?

Is it 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5?

And you're telling them, well, no, maybe that's not the best way to do it, but no, no, I still want my number.

So you're kind of fighting that battle too.

So the Earth rotates, right?

As that happens, you know, you've got different forces acting on different sides, right?

Different sides of the equator.

So hurricanes always instinctively want to go toward the pole.