Hurricane Erin raced from a Category 1 to a Category 5 storm. If Erin keeps ramping up, is there a Category 6?

A recently published piece, now known as the Category 6 hurricane paper, is raising conversation about the future of storms in a climate change world.

The traditional Saffir-Simpson scale categorizes hurricanes on a 1 to 5 rating system based on maximum sustained wind speed, with a Category 5 bearing winds of at least 157 mph.

Hurricane Erin rapidly intensified from a tropical storm to a dangerous Category 5 hurricane in just 24 hours.

Wind alone does not account for all hurricane-related fatalities. Storm surge and rainfall do as well. Yet the current warning system—the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale—measures a storm's ...

Erin is forecast to become a Category 4 hurricane, threatening Puerto Rico, Bermuda, and U.S. coasts with flooding and surf.

Hurricane Erin exploded in strength to a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean on Saturday, rapidly powering up from a tropical ...

Erin became the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season on Friday and was expected to continue strengthening, forecasters ...

Erin has become a Category 3 hurricane in the Caribbean, with expectations to strengthen further on Saturday, according to ...

Hurricane Erin weakened to a Category 3 hurricane Sunday as its outer bands continued to lash the Virgin Islands and Puerto ...

A new paper published in Nature Scientific Reports finds that in order to keep people safe, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind ...