As hurricane season begins, experts are debating whether to add a category 6 to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale due to ...

Category 6 proposal: Researchers suggest adding a new top category for storms above 192 mph, pointing to trends in recent decades toward stronger hurricanes. Season outlook: Forecasters expect a ...

Feb. 6 (UPI) --As climate change is causing more intense storms, a new study is suggesting that the five-scale system by which the potential damage caused by hurricanes is gauged should be revised to ...

Under their proposal, Category 6 tropical cyclones would include storms with wind speeds exceeding 160 knots. Until now, any storm stronger than 137 knots has been grouped into Category 5, which most ...

Ocean heat is quietly rewriting the rules of the planet’s most dangerous storms, loading hurricanes with more fuel than the current scale was ever designed to capture. As those waters warm, a growing ...