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Scott Huler: The Poetry of the Beaufort Scale The Beaufort Scale is a 19th-century document that inspired the current system for classifying and describing hurricanes. Writer Scott Huler finds poetry in the scale -- especially in a time of vague and misleading language.

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The Beaufort Scale is a 19th-century document that inspired the current system for classifying and describing hurricanes. Writer Scott Huler finds poetry in the scale — especially in a time of vague and misleading language.