Hurricanes are getting so strong in a warming world that a Category 6 intensity should be added to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind scale, a new study finds.

Why it matters: The research shows how significantly climate change is altering storm intensity and other characteristics, as well as further underscoring the limitations of the scale.

Reality check: The paper, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, does not represent an official move by the National Hurricane Center to add another hurricane category.

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    9 months ago

    Cat 3 was when most reasonable Floridans I knew on the mainland started giving a shit, but I guess most of the reasonable ones have left by now. I still remember Charlie Francis and Jeanne being pretty awful.

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      9 months ago

      They didn’t leave, go visit a graveyard and look at the dates.

      My wife’s dad died in 2019 and they got him a nice plot that was pretty secluded. The cemetery filled up and all the graves around him are 2020-2022, COVID killed a lot of people 🥲