Why are there Two Hurricane Models, the European Model and the American Model when physics and statistics are the same everywhere?

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Why are there Two Hurricane Models, the European Model and the American Model when physics and statistics are the same everywhere?

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Computing power per capita. The United States and surrounding countries get gangbanged by 5-12 hurricanes a year, so we care more about figuring out a general course so we can just be ready for the gaping afterwards. So, we have to buy a lot of computers to figure out which area is gonna get abused the most, so they can start moving hundreds of thousands of palettes of medical, food, water, etc supplies to the GENERAL area of a 50-100 mile wide gaping hole.

Europe gets maybe two hurricanes a decade, so they only need a MacBook Pro and some fancy drawings in photoshop.

While Europe is trying to be accurate, the Americas are just trying to figure out who drew the short straw with this hurricane and is getting pounded for 3 days.

Because 50-100 miles wide could mean that as Florida’s tip is getting wet, Cuba is taking a beating. We have a lot more people affected by severe weather in multiple states, countries etc over a 1000 mile track.

Europe has to figure out “Are we getting some bad rain.”

America has to figure out who needs triage