A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6. Studies have shown ...

Since the 1970s, hurricane wind strength has been measured using the Saffir-Simpson scale, with categories from 1 to the most intense, 5, packing winds 157 mph or higher. Now with storms that ...

Thought Category 5 was as bad as a hurricane could get? Think again. As Hurricane Melissa barrels off into the Atlantic after devastating Jamaica and Cuba, some scientists say the age of Category 6 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A handful of super powerful tropical storms ...

With hurricane season in full swing, there's a lot of talk from meteorologists about hurricane "categories." What do they mean, and what do they tell us about a storm? It turns out, a hurricane's ...