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The National Hurricane Center has used the Saffer Simpson wind scale for over 50 years

to categorize the potential power a hurricane has to inflict damage.

As most of us know already, and as we've talked about on this show in the past, the scale goes from

a cat one hurricane or the weakest, all the way up to a cat five with wind speeds over 158 miles per hour.

If I recall correctly the reason we've talked about the saffers Simpson wind scale

is because climate change is fueling more rapid intensification where storms basically go from

tropical storm level to explosive category 5 hurricane in a matter of hours.

Yeah, as the oceans in the atmosphere heat up they are able to hold more energy and more moisture.

These storms suck up all that heat from the oceans and use it as fuel to power their devastating winds and rain.

Here's a crazy fact. Imagine the amount of

electricity that the entire planet can generate. Well, winds from a single

hurricane can whip up about half that amount.

Wait, one storm can produce the same amount of energy as half the planet, basically?

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