You want to perform a Spearman correlation between hurricane Saffir-Simpson category and dollar damages (in thousands of dollars at 2019 dollar value).Before you proceed in your calc

convert Saffir-Simpson category to interval/ratio level data [pressure in millibars, wind speed in knots etc.]

A.square the data to reflect its non-linear relationship

B.rank the dollar damages data

C.make sure all data are normally distributed

D.you cannot use Spearman with non-ordinal level dataulations you must FIRST