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The most-serious hurricane is known as a Category 5. But two scientists have proposed the creation of a Category 6 designation, as climate change supercharges extreme weather events. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Michael Wehner, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, about this new category, which he says might describe some recent deadly and
Some scientists say Category 5 is not enough to describe the monster storms that have battered us in recent years.
A handful of super powerful tropical cyclones in the last decade has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6. Studies have shown that the strongest tropical cyclones are getting more intense because of climate change. So two climate scientists suggest Monday that the traditional five-category scale developed more than 50 years ago may not do enough to show the true power of the most potent storms. They propose a sixth category of storms with winds that exceed 192 miles per hour. But several experts told The Associated Press they don't think another catego...
Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(NEW YORK) --Â Hurricane experts are debating adding a Category 6 on the current scale to
A new report studied 197 Category 5 tropical cyclones between 1980 and 2021 and it identified five storms that hypothetically could be classified as Category 6, including a cyclone that had wind speeds up to 215 mph.