[MV=PY]

"The hurricane rating system is misleading, based on wind speed. The danger from hurricanes mostly is not wind but water. "

It is a wind rating, which is much more meaningful than the gobbledegook dreamed up by stupid reporters.

It's very meaningful to ships. It was originated by a guy studying the effectiveness of cheap low income housing (which is relatively inexpensive to make water-proof, but more expensive to make structurally sound in high winds).

Saffir–Simpson scale

[Pikachu_Dad]

There used to be (and still are but they never talk about them) 3 parts to the rating system.

Wind speed

Barometric Pressure

Storm Surge.

Lately they just seem to be rating storms based solely on wind speed. As in ‘since 2005’