22 Feb 2018

Climate change could cause new Category 6 cyclone

From Morning Report, 8:55 am on 22 February 2018

A new category of cyclone - category six - may be needed as climate change makes storms more extreme. The only thing that stopped the strongest tropical cyclone on record - Cyclone Winston - being a six was the fact the category doesn't exist. A gathering of climate change experts has been told that may have to change.