Two Category-3 hurricanes can be worlds apart — a compact storm punches a narrow hole, a sprawling one puts a whole region under hurricane-force wind. Set the category and size, pick a landfall, and see how far the winds, surge and rain reach — and who's inside them.
Evacuate for surge, shelter for wind — and know which one you face before the cone points at you.
The category is a headline. The size is the story.
Two Category-3 hurricanes can be worlds apart — a compact storm punches a narrow hole, a sprawling one hammers a whole region.
This models the wind field by category and size; it doesn’t forecast a specific storm’s track, rainfall or surge (use the Flood sim for surge). Wind is only part of a hurricane’s damage — inland flooding often does more.
