As climatic events intensify in an increasingly warm world, a new study suggested that hurricanes should add a new category to the Saffir-Simpson scale, taking it to six.
The paper, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, says that the scale, introduced in the early 1970s, categorizes Tropical Cyclones (TC) based on their wind intensity, with category 5 representing storms with speeds of 70 m/s or greater.
