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Weather
are calling for a new, stronger category for hurricanes. They say this is because climate change is causing more
storms. Scientists in the USA want to extend the current
used to measure hurricanes. This scale ranks storms from 1 to 5. A category five is
the strongest. This is when winds reach 252 kph. The
say a new category of 6 is needed for
of over 309 kph. Their studies show that in the
decade, there have been five hurricanes and typhoons that would have been a category 6. Hurricanes and
are the same weather phenomenon. The
start in the Atlantic Ocean,
the latter occur in the north-western Pacific Ocean.
