Yes, that is correct, Hurricanes are now exceeding the theoretical maximum possible category 5 ratings and will now go up to category 11.
Fire and brimstone are expected in the eye of the storms. Hurricane Category 6?
Fire and brimstone are expected in the eye of the storms. Hurricane Category 6?
This simple guest post was prompted by an alarming WaPo report ‘today’ of a new PNAS study seriously proposing an expansion of the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale to a ‘level 6’, (beyond the current peak of 5) because of intensified tropical cyclones caused by climate change.
The PNAS reasoning was that a few Pacific Hurricanes (aka tropical cyclones) have exceeded SF level 5. True, sort of. All 5 cited by PNAS only temporarily exceeded Cat 5. For example, quoting from the new paper, “The most intense of these hypothetical Cat 6 storms, Patricia, hit landfall in Jalisco, Mexico as a cat 4.” OOPS.