The local terrain has a lot to do with this.
Making big wind isn't the same as creating a hurricane. The ultimate goal here is to have a full-scale structure immersed in a hurricane.
We haven't seen something this big since we started the programme.
Nothing we observed got close to a Category 3 wind speeds.
Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars of damage that happened over the past few years happened at winds speeds a lot lower than we think they are.
Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars in insured losses from the last few years are due to wind speeds lower than we thought they were.
The disconnect is not between us and forecasters, it's between us and people in general.
