Milton update: How are hurricanes categorized and why is there no Category 6?
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A trend of rapidly intensifying storms, fueled by warm ocean water, may once again reignite the debate over how hurricanes are categorized, and why they stop at 5.
In a matter of hours, Hurricane Milton grew into a Category 5 storm on Monday, with wind speeds surging by an astonishing 90 mph in just over a day, a process meteorologists call “rapid intensification.”