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If the world sticks with just five storm categories "as these storms get stronger and stronger it will more and more underestimate the potential risk," said study co-author Jim Kossin, a former NOAA climate and hurricane researcher now with First Street Foundation.
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...
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 whopper hurricanes: Category 6. Studies have shown that the strongest tropical storms are getting more intense because of climate change. So the traditional five-category Saffir-Simpson scale, developed […]
The world’s most intense hurricanes are growing even more intense, fueled by rising temperatures in the ocean and atmosphere, a study says.
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...