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A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of hurricanes.

Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Hurricane experts are debating adding a Category 6 on the current scale to highlight the increasing possibility of stronger storms as ocean waters continue to warm. Resear...

In a new study, scientists explored a hypothetical expansion of the scale to include a Category 6.

Intensifying storms may warrant a new category of hurricane wind speeds.

In a warming world where rising ocean temperatures give fuel to a new breed of ultra-strong hurricanes, does a wind scale that maxes out at Category 5 go far enough? Or could there be a Category 6 hurricane? Researchers raise those questions in a study, released on Monday, that analyzes

The National Hurricane Center has relied on the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale to categorize hurricane, ranking them from Category 1-5.

The authors' opinion is that the open-endedness of the 5th category of the wind scale becomes increasingly problematic for conveying wind risk in a warming world. They suggest a 6th category may help communicate that climate change has caused the winds of the most intense tropical cyclones to become significantly higher.

Two climate scientists suggested in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that a sixth category for storms with winds that exceed 192 miles per...

Two climate scientists suggested in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that a sixth category for storms with winds that exceed 192 miles per...

Scientists call for update to Saffir Simpson scale to include new standard, Cat 6, for extremely strong hurricanes that could threaten Gulf, Louisiana.