This is how the world ends: will we soon see category 6 hurricanes?

There is no such thing as a category 6 hurricane or tropical storm – yet. The highest level – the top of the scale for the most powerful, most devastating hurricane or tropical storm capable of destroying entire cities like New Orleans or New York – is a category 5 storm.

 A Noaa satellite handout image shows Hurricane Florence as
 it made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.

Meteorologists and scientists never imagined that there would be a need for a category 6 storm, with winds that exceed 200 miles per hour on a sustained basis, sweeping away everything in its path. Until now, such a storm wasn’t possible, so there was no need for a new category above category 5.

Read the story by Jeff Nesbit from The Guardian - ”This is how the world ends: will we soon see category 6 hurricanes?”