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Hurricane Katrina vs. Hurricane Helene (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this can't be an accurate or reasonably accurate depiction, these are two completely different storms in a different category after all.

What do you mean? This shows the differences between the two.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

What do you mean? This shows the differences between the two.

yeah but i don't really see how that matters. Weather is extremely complicated, and unless hurricanes are a lot more consistent than i think they are, this is a lot like comparing two random tornados together, and then being surprised when one of them is a lot worse than the other.

If that's what we're doing we should compare the tri state tornado to any tornado in the last 10 years and suddenly tornados must be a lot less dangerous now than back when the tri state tornado hit.

It's an entirely arbitrary mechanism of comparison. It's just wrong.

Even if the point is trying to convey the difference between different storms, i can pick up two different rocks, they're both different rocks. You can't really glean something from 2 data points effectively.