Social media is full of exaggerated claims about Hurricane Milton, but there’s no such thing as a Category 6 hurricane.
Hurricane Milton rapidly intensified to a peak wind speed of 180 mph on Oct. 7, winds strong enough to make it a Category 5 hurricane. The storm lost some intensity as it began to grow and is now a Category 4, but the National Hurricane Center expects Milton’s strength to fluctuate as it approaches Florida’s gulf coast.
Milton’s peak wind speeds were among the strongest ever for an Atlantic hurricane, which prompted some people on social media to say the storm could become a Category 6 if it reached wind speeds of 192 mph.
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