Weather & Science
Calling Hurricanes a Category 6 Risks Creating Deadly Confusion
A new academic paper suggests introducing a higher number to categorize ocean-born storms, as global warming makes them gustier. Yet often times it’s not wind that kills.
Hurricane Florence churns through the Atlantic Ocean toward the US East Coast on September 12, 2018.
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Category 5 has become part of the world’s lexicon to describe a disaster of monumental proportion.