Category 6 is the new hurricane normal. Why scientists say we need to rethink what we know about storms. “As long as we’re using wind-based metrics, it simply doesn’t make sense (mathematically, or fiscally and sociologically) to artificially cap the scale at 5 any more.”

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1. I was wondering when this was going to happen. So scary.

2. We need a different scale.

   Wind based scales were OK for trying to determine how bad the building damage is, and how to design to a given threshold.

   Rain totals aren’t at all included, and should be.

3. If category 6 existed back then Dorian would have been an solid cat 6

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