Category 6 Hurricane 2024 Forecast. Milton, like katrina, will be pushing a. That's how many storms could have been classified as a category 6 between 1980 and 2021, meaning they exceeded maximum sustained winds of 192 mph.
C olorado state university’s tropical meteorology project team is forecasting 23 storms, 11 of which will become hurricanes and five of which will reach category 3 status. For instance, hurricane katrina in 2005 was a category 5 in the gulf but weakened to category 3 before hitting louisiana and mississippi.