A 77-year-old is believed to have died after he was blown away by heavy winds while attempting to check on his hunting dogs.Ī woman in South Carolina died after her car struck a tree, the state's highway patrol told ABC News. A 78-year-old man was electrocuted at his home while attempting to connect two extension cords outside in the rain. The father was transported to a nearby hospital with injuries, police said.Ī third person died in North Carolina's coastal Pender County, where an official called it a medical fatality but did not elaborate.Īnother two people died in Kinston, North Carolina, officials said. And I told the Director of the National Hurricane Center that loudly and publicly at the AMS Hurricane Conference the next year (and got the biggest applause of the conference).Reports of deaths from the storm began to come in.Īmong the dead were a mother and her baby died after a tree fell on their home in Wilmington, North Carolina. I had to spend a lot of my time on-air explaining the type of storm that I could have spent on the dangers. So, why did they have to confuse the public as the most important storm in their lives was about to hit? Was the impact of the storm going to change at all? NO! Sandy also caused major problems with communication when it was changed from a Category 1 hurricane to a Post-tropical Cyclone.Įveryone outside of the meteorology profession probably said-or thought: 'What the hell is a Post-Tropical Cyclone?' If Mayor Bloomberg didn’t get it, how could others? And this is an obviously smart guy, with lots of smart people advising him.
#Hurricane schwartz on hurricane florence tv
I remember it distinctly, because I was yelling at the TV as he said it.įortunately, I was able to get on TV at NBC10 in Philadelphia and correct him for the folks in South Jersey. In 2012, the Mayor of New York City told the world that former Category 3 Hurricane Sandy had now weakened to a Category 1, so the danger was less. Man killed, another injured in shooting near Fairmount Park It’s a whole lot simpler to think that a Category 5 is now a Category 3, so the danger has lessened significantly, right? Like when a former Category 5 Katrina in 2005 caused a record storm surge in Mississippi and the disastrous flooding in New Orleans AFTER IT WEAKENED to a Category 3. Of course, a Category 5 is the worst-case storm. After all, isn’t the bottom line to get the public to understand what is about to happen, and what the danger will be? There actually was a change in the 1971 Saffir-Simpson scale in 2009. But there are serious scientific reasons to do it:įLORENCE, HARVEY, SANDY, KATRINA SHOW WHY I’ve already made my case to add a Category 6 (currently, Category 5 is the highest level) - a suggestion that has gotten hurricane experts reacting like we were proposing to abandon science itself. What hasn’t changed in science in the past 40 years? Not much. I’m getting more than a little tired of this common consensus: "There’s no reason to change the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale."įor crying out loud, it’s been around for almost 40 years.
SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE IS NOT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
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