Extended hurricane category scale, following Wehner&Kossin, Proceedings of the National Academy 2024: pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna… If that scale didn't stop at Category 5 for historic reasons, we would have had several Category 6 tropical cyclones since year 2000.
Replying to @rahmstorf
So we can guess there were many cat 6 cyclones before y2k.

Nov 3, 2025 · 10:06 PM UTC