Category 6 Hurricane: Is it even possible?
The Saffir-Simpson scale, which rates hurricanes based on wind speed, ends at Category 5. But what would a hypothetical Category 6 look like? Is it even possible? MyRadar meteorologist Matthew Cappucci has a deep dive.
@MyRadar @VelvetDuchess Having listened to Beau of The Fifth Column on YouTube, this would not be a good idea. He explained the psychology of the people who wait out hurricanes and if a next level is created, they will stay for CAT 5's since they have been superseded. This would be very dangerous.
Living in Switzerland in 2008, I read about a huge downpour in Italy, went out that evening, and wrote a blog post
"Wondering about #GlobalHUMIDIFICATION..."
And my blog had little audience: I didn't think about it again. Then after returning to Colorado, and on Facebook, I joined the group
"Global Warming Fact of the Day" (12K members?).
After a few months, I asked if anyone discussed Global humidification? And received quite condescending replies from the scientists.
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They "assured" me my thinking was not crazy; they offered links to scholarly journal articles, copyrighted in 2009, 2010, and 2011...
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And my reply thanked them, and in doing so I linked them to my 2008 Swiss blog entry, facetious asking if I was due any credit for jump-starting the line of scientific inquiry?
(Was damned-good wine we had that evening in 2008).
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Lived 7 yrs in hurricane alley. The prospect of a Cat 6 is terrifying.
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The previous post brought to you due to a question from yesterday by CoSo's own @VelvetDuchess .