Cat 6 creation?

[Luv2Roam]

Do you think due to Katrina and Rita that a Category 6 hurricane will be added to the current system?

[bsnyder]

No I don't.

[Pete's Mom]

Pete was asking me the same question tonight. Why is there no Cat 6? :confused3

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I'm wondering b/c if it is worse than 5....it won't matter....it's doom.

Rita is only the 5th strongest on record right now.

[Lisa loves Pooh]

well I found this...basically--there isn't a real reason:

There is no category 6 because so few storms would reach that scale. "You're only getting 2 or 3 percent in that Category 5. It's just the way they did it,'' said Jerry Jarrell, director of the National Hurricane Center

[PixieDust32]

Ohhh!! :earseek:

[auntpolly]

I thought it had to do with the wind, not the devastation? If it ever far exceded the maximum we've ever seen, then I guess it could happen -- it won't because of Katrina, though, because maximum winds weren't strong enough.

[Luv2Roam]

At one time the Weather Channel reported IF there were a Cat 6, Katrina would have been there. It did not stay that way long. So I wonder if that is part of the reason. A Cat 6 is brief at that level.

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Also---there are only 2 hurricanes on record stronger than Rita....the unamed one of a long time ago and Gilbert.

It is a small % that achieves that number.

Don't some fields---refrain from tempting murhpy's law? If the category doesn't exist, less likely to happen?

Aunt Polly--it is due to wind...but the scale is so narrow between levels....no more than 10-20 miles between categories. Weird--just looked them up and each range gets broader....I think part of that is when the destruction levels change as well....the higher the category--a couple of mile hour increase makes less of a difference...

Cat 1 74-95 mph (11 mile difference)
Cat 2 96-110 mph (14 mile difference)
Cat 3 111-130 mph (19 mile difference)
Cat 4 131-155 mph (24 mile difference)
Cat 5 155+

Rita is now 175 mph...which is only 20 miles more than the start range.

Not a meteorologist..nor do I play one on tv....but I wonder what the basis of it possibly being a Cat 6 if there were a category is.

Maybe 185mph would be the next category.

[mamalle]

its reported there are wind gusts up to 212 MPH :earseek:

[Miss Jasmine]

I would say there will never be any category six because one it hits five, forget it. Most everything will be destroyed.

[Serena]

I was wondering about that too. It's scary.

[Christine]

This was a question on our local news last night during the weather report. According to the meterologist, there will not be a Cat 6 because once a storm gets "that strong" it starts collapsing within itself and is no longer organized. So, they made it sound like it was impossible.

[Tiggerlover91]

I would say there will never be any category six because one it hits five, forget it. Most everything will be destroyed.

What does that have to do with anything? :confused3 The catergory is determined by the winds, not the possible devastation it can do.

[golfgal]

What does that have to do with anything? :confused3 The catergory is determined by the winds, not the possible devastation it can do.


Because it gets to the point where it doesn't matter any more how strong the winds are. If a hurricane is a Cat 5 and 175 mph winds, it is going to destroy everything in it's path, so it doesn't matter at that point if the winds are 175 mph or 185 mph you just better be far away if it hits.

[Miss Jasmine]

Because it gets to the point where it doesn't matter any more how strong the winds are. If a hurricane is a Cat 5 and 175 mph winds, it is going to destroy everything in it's path, so it doesn't matter at that point if the winds are 175 mph or 185 mph you just better be far away if it hits.
Exactly.

[sodaseller]

Pete was asking me the same question tonight. Why is there no Cat 6? :confused3
Like Spinal Tap's Guitar volume - an "11"

[Pete's Mom]

Like Spinal Tap's Guitar volume - an "11" :rotfl2: :rotfl: :rotfl2: :rotfl:

[Tiggerlover91]

Sorry I asked. :( I just didn't understand.