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As someone who just went through Ian using the date it became a tropical depression seems wrong. It was a Cat 4 yesterday when it made landfall and it was a Cat
by importantbrian 4y ago
As someone who just went through Ian using the date it became a tropical depression seems wrong. It was a Cat 4 yesterday when it made landfall and it was a Cat 1, 2, and 3 storm before and after that.
- mynegation 4y agoI hope you, your family, and the community are doing well. Were you in Western Cuba when it made landfall? That was well before yesterday. Any particular landfall in general will be arbitrary and becoming Cat 4 is more or less objective.
- importantbrian 4y agoWe're doing okay we fortunately weren't too close to Ft Myers. My point wasn't about the landfall. It was that if you're saying it's X days since the last category 4 hurricane then using the date it was designated as a tropical depression doesn't seem correct, because it wasn't a category 4 storm at that time. You should use the last day that it was a category 4 which is also objective, and is actually the most recent time we had a category 4 storm.
- mynegation 4y agoAh, sorry, I misinterpreted your comment. Yes, if the line on a website is “day since category 4” it totally makes sense to use the latest day when hurricane was assessed category 4.