Category 6 Hurricane 2024. Stronger and more destructive hurricanes fueled by climate change may require a rethinking of how storms are classified, according to a new study that suggests. Researchers say five storms since 2013 had wind speeds that could categorize them as a category 6 hurricane or cyclone — and that climate change will.
A recent study that explores expanding the hurricane scale to include a category 6 has created a media frenzy, and i and many of my colleagues rejected the. − hurricane helene made landfall thursday night carrying catastrophic 140 mph winds as the first known category 4 storm to hit florida’s.