Measurement choice is destiny, case zillion. The popular hurricane scale, Saffir-Simpson, is based on highest sustained wind-speed—only one kind of risk, and often not the most important one. Florence is now larger, but with slightly slower winds at the center. So "weakened".
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All indices and scales are by their very definition a simplification, a reduction. HSI and ACE will fail to capture smaller-scale features where the worst-case scenarios are realized. Maybe better, but not enough.
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