We need a new category for hurricanes.

late · Jun 15, 2018

"But what if five categories of hurricanes aren’t enough? What if a sixth—for those with winds at almost 200 mph—is now becoming necessary?

Thanks to climate change, that might be the case."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hurricanes-are-now-so-violent-that-we-need-a-new-category?ref=wrap

Irwin Corey · Jun 15, 2018

Beyond Category would be a … DJT!

Superfly · Jun 15, 2018

late said:
"But what if five categories of hurricanes aren’t enough? What if a sixth—for those with winds at almost 200 mph—is now becoming necessary?

Thanks to climate change, that might be the case."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hurricanes-are-now-so-violent-that-we-need-a-new-category?ref=wrap

Gee, thanks, late.

Right here at the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season, you bring this up? :lol:

*more to worry about*

Common Sense 1 · Jun 15, 2018

Category Five Hurricane: Winds greater than 155 mph (135 kt or 249 km/hr). Storm surge generally greater than 18 ft above normal.

Five different categories seem fine. If you start adding to many it's just going to confuse people.
Maybe start thinking a cat 5 is no big deal. It's just as easy to give the wind speeds if necessary.
How many storms have had 200 MPH winds that hit the US? I found Hurricane Patricia. Maybe there were more?

Tim the plumber · Jun 15, 2018

Common Sense 1 said:
Category Five Hurricane: Winds greater than 155 mph (135 kt or 249 km/hr). Storm surge generally greater than 18 ft above normal.

Five different categories seem fine. If you start adding to many it's just going to confuse people.
Maybe start thinking a cat 5 is no big deal. It's just as easy to give the wind speeds if necessary.
How many storms have had 200 MPH winds that hit the US? I found Hurricane Patricia. Maybe there were more?

Don't tell him to calm down, he is all fired up over his latest panic thought. If he does not have this release of panicing he will have to find something in his real life to panic about.

late · Jun 15, 2018

Common Sense 1 said:
If you start adding to many it's just going to confuse people.

So you're saying they'd run out of fingers on their counting hand.

late · Jun 15, 2018

Since we have people with minimal reading skills, here's some remedial help:

“If you look at the breaks in the scale currently (e.g., 130 mph boundary between [Category] 3 and 4, 156 mph boundary between [Category] 4 and 5), which is based roughly on how intensity varies with wind speed, there should be another boundary somewhere around 185 mph,” Mann noted...

But more importantly,” Mann added, “the scale is supposed to connote risk, and there is no question that the risk from a 200 mph monster storm is far greater than that for a 157 mph marginal [Category] 5 storm.”

Fletch · Jun 15, 2018

late said:
"But what if five categories of hurricanes aren’t enough? What if a sixth—for those with winds at almost 200 mph—is now becoming necessary?

Thanks to climate change, that might be the case."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hurricanes-are-now-so-violent-that-we-need-a-new-category?ref=wrap

What is the evidence that a sixth category is necessary? Have there been a slew of 200+ mph storms that have hit the US that I am unaware of?

late · Jun 15, 2018

Fletch said:
What is the evidence that a sixth category is necessary? Have there been a slew of 200+ mph storms that have hit the US that I am unaware of?

Read Post 7, just above yours...

Common Sense 1 · Jun 15, 2018

late said:
So you're saying they'd run out of fingers on their counting hand.

No I am saying it's a stupid idea! Easy.....

Common Sense 1 · Jun 15, 2018

Fletch said:
What is the evidence that a sixth category is necessary? Have there been a slew of 200+ mph storms that have hit the US that I am unaware of?

Exactly! There is no need. Very few storms have hit the US with winds of 200 or over!

late · Jun 15, 2018

Common Sense 1 said:
No I am saying it's a stupid idea! Easy.....

You need a reason.

You also don't have one..

We need a new category for hurricanes.

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We need a new category for hurricanes.

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