Hurricane Dorian is reviving a question that arises whenever the U.S. is threatened by the fiercest of hurricanes: 'How about a Category 6?'
Hurricane Dorian is reviving a question that arises whenever the U.S. is threatened by the fiercest of hurricanes: Should there be a higher category designation, say a Category 6?
“This comes up every year whenever we have a Category 5,” said Ryan Maue, a private-sector meteorologist. He recently tweeted about what kinds of wind speeds a Category 6 or 7 hurricane would have, if the Saffir-Simpson scale used to rate a hurricane’s sustained wind speed were extended.
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