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Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 12, 2024 - For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to communicate the risk of property damage; it labels a hurricane on a scale from Category 1 (wind speeds
Increasing ocean temperatures contribute to ever more intense hurricanes, climate scientists Michael Wehner and James Kossin wondered whether the open-ended Category 5 is sufficient to communicate the risk of hurricane damage.
For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to communicate the risk of property damage; it labels a hurricane on a scale from Category 1 (wind speeds between 74 – 95 mph) to Category 5 (wind speeds of 158 mph or greater).
Scientists say that climate change will spark a wave of mega-hurricanes with wind speeds so fast that a new category will be needed to measure their potential destruction.
Our go-to five-category scale may no longer be enough.