New hurricane classification scale created

U.S. scientists are proposing a new hurricane classification scale that measures what the big storms do when they hit land.

U.S. hurricane forecasters currently use only the Saffir-Simpson scale to classify hurricane severity by number, from 1 to 5. The SS scale evaluates winds and storm surge over open water in the pre-landfall window, but critics say it fails to accurately account for the observed impacts over land.

from UPI