re: New Category 6 Hurricane Classification Proposed Due to Climate Change

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From what I can find there has only been 1 storm in recorded history where winds exceeding 190 have been recorded, and that was Hurricane Patricia in the Pacific and it made landfall as a Cat 4 in Jalisco, Mexico on October 23, 2015.

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Don't feel like doing the research, but based on the article it says there were 5 storms in the past 10 years that exceeded 192 mph

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In fact, of the 197 tropical cyclones worldwide that reached Category 5 status between 1980 and 2021, five exceeded the hypothetical Category 6 threshold, the study found. All five occurred since 2013, including 2015’s Hurricane Patricia, which hit Mexico, and Super Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated the Philippines in 2013.

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Which brings up the question, if there are so few why the need to create a new category?

Interesting enough, the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic appears to have been from 1980.