Meteorologist Interview Question:

Explain how does the amount of damage caused by a cyclone increase as the wind speed increases?

Submitted by: Muhammad

As wind speed increases the power of the wind to do damage increases exponentially. Hence a category 5 severe tropical cyclone (with wind gusts > 280 km/h) has the potential to do around 250 times the damage of a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone (with wind gusts of 165 km/h). This underscores the importance of the category system.
Submitted by: Muhammad