Florence stirs up a debate about how we talk about hurricanes

Grist
By Kate YoderSep 25, 2018, 2:31 pm156 pts
At Hurricane Florence’s peak of intensity on September 10, its winds roared to 130 mph. But as the Category 4 storm approached the Carolinas, those gusts weakened. When it made landfall, it had been downgraded to a less-threatening-sounding Category 1. That led some Carolinians to cancel their evacuation…

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