But it could soon reach the level of a hypothetical Category 6 experts have discussed and stir up arguments about whether the National Hurricane Center’s long-used scale for classifying ...

“Hurricane Milton is now a Category 6,” the post’s text states. There is no “Category 6” on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale. While a sixth tier has been discussed in hypothetical ...

Hurricane Milton intensified to a powerful ... Five of those storms exceeded our hypothetical category 6 and all of these occurred in the last 9 y of the record," the researchers wrote in the ...

Hurricanes have been getting stronger thanks ... Because of this, they suggested a hypothetical Category 6 could become the top step on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Currently, the Saffir-Simpson ...

Fortunately, after Wednesday night, according to NHC hurricane specialist Andrew Hagen, the percentage chance that these gale-force winds will spiral into a still hypothetical Hurricane Nadine are ...

ADVERTISEMENT That hypothetical cyclone, dubbed “Hurricane Phoenix,” was produced by the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council in 2010—complete with hyper-realistic news footage of how the ...

Hurricane seasons are getting more intense ... and that “a number of recent storms have already achieved this hypothetical Category 6 intensity, and … more such storms are projected as ...

They then calculated what the wind speeds of recent hurricanes would have been over these cooler Atlantic Oceans, and finally compared the hypothetical speeds to observed hurricane wind speeds.