What hurricane categories mean and why we use them

And what comes next in sorting these giant storms. An image of Irma captured by the Suomi NPP satellite. UWM/SSEC/CIMSS, William Straka III Before Harvey, or Irma, or Katrina, there was Camille. With winds so powerful that they knocked out wind gauges in Mississippi, the epic strength of Hurricane Camille was monstrous. But before it struck…