In a new study, scientists explored a hypothetical expansion of the scale to include a Category 6, and found that such a designation could help focus people of the worsening risks. The hurricane ...

Another hurricane expert, Jeff Masters, now semi-retired, doesn’t think the NHC would or should change the Saffir-Simpson scale. “However, talking about hypothetical category 6 storms is a ...

However, some storms like 2017’s Hurricane Harvey can produce so much rain that they stall and generate their own mini-oceans that they use to keep going. The team determined this hypothetical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Climate change has amplified the strength of Atlantic hurricanes by an average of 18 miles per hour in the last six years. Warmer waters are fueling more storms with vastly increased wind speeds.