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Is It Time to Classify Hurricanes as Category 6?

Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds and drenching rains devastated Jamaica. But is its wrath a sign that we need a new designation for monster storms?

Some scientists say it’s time to rethink how we measure hurricanes. Here's why

A Georgia Tech researcher says we may need more tools to measure the full impacts of strong hurricanes like Melissa.

See how Hurricane Melissa, among strongest on record, compares with historic storms

Melissa is among three Atlantic hurricanes to make landfall with 185 mph winds. Another storm to do so was the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935.
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Hurricane Melissa Ravages Eastern Cuba, Causing Widespread Flooding and Destruction

Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall early this morning in Cuba as a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, is forcefully advancing over the

Hurricanes: Do we need a new 'Category 6'?

There are five levels on what is called the Saffir-Simpson scale. But with storms getting stronger, should another category be added to it?

'If a hurricane hits, we're screwed,' Haitians say about Hurricane Melissa

Melissa is a 'catastrophic' storm, the strongest possible on the Saffir-Simpson scale, according to the US National Hurricane Center. In Haiti, impoverished by years of gang violence, more than 3,650 residents in southern parts of the country moved into temporary shelters.
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