In a warming world, climate scientists consider category 6 hurricanes
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). But as increasing ocean temperatures contribute to … Read more