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Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale

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92 points geox | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 23:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.302s | source
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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[31 Aug 25 01:45 UTC] No.45079602[source]▶
Up here, Sandy was a cat 2 or 3, but caused 70 billion dollars’ worth of damage, and killed a couple hundred people. Water did most of that damage.

But about 30 years ago, Andrew swept across Florida like a giant roomba, and did a huge amount of damage. It was a cat 5. Wind did most of the damage.

Not sure how they would reconcile these two types of mega-storms.

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1. wmichelin ◴[31 Aug 25 02:08 UTC] No.45079700[source]▶
It sounds like under the new ratings, both would be much closer together. It sounds like the water damage caused by Sandy is not articulated in the current rating system. So Sandy might work out to be a 4 or a 5? Not 100% sure of course, but that is my interpretation of the article.