re: Sally - Moving towards Georgia - Potential for Significant Flooding

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It’s quite feasible.

It just takes someone with the Ability to model the other factors beside just wind and then start a rating system.

It doesn’t have to replace the safir Simpson but could be an additional measurement. Other parts of the world use different scales so that alone proves it can be done.

I like that Saf Simpson is easy to understand but here we are in 2020 and we ONLY use the same scale that has been used for decades. Saf simp measures one minute of wind. Why not 2 or 3 or 4 ... or 10? So even this simplistic scale could be altered.

It’s not impossible to create another scale. It’s quite possible.
I could throw in Just rain, longer sustained winds, and storm size and create something different.
Heck... I just might do that.

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I would say what they could do is a color-coded rainbow cone but there is already a tropical storm/hurricane wind probability map they put out that displays this information based on the probabilities of each intensity.

Maybe the National Hurricane center should ditch its static image cone maps that they have used since the early 2000s and just focus on its interactive maps and display click points of data and short text forecasts explaining the details at that point.

Most of these data sets are already sent or interpolated by the major TV Weather map providers, but it is not readily available on the NHC website.