@The Aspie Corner
You can bet El Trumpo will be in Florida, and talk endlessly about he's a victim.

Seriously. I fully expect Dipshit to come to FL just to satiate his god damned ego.

Kamala, Cory, and Chelsea.

Irma, Jose, Katia

@Dopeman
It's simply a matter of wind speed. Irma is a very strong storm, but nothing that breaks the scale. There might be reasons to make a 6 category, but Irma wouldn't be in it.
The destructive power of wind goes up with the square of the speed, so if we were to define Cat 6 as sustained winds of 200 mph or more they would represent storms that level cities to the foundations. No such storms have been observed, though they may have occurred in the past.
Hurricanes are limited in strength by the depth of warm water. Water vapor forms over warm surface water, absorbing heat and cooling the surface, then rises to the upper atmosphere where it condenses, releasing heat into space and causing low pressure. The low pressure pulls up the ocean surface which brings lower water to the surface. As the storm gets stronger it pulls water from below the warm surface layer and eventually taps water which is too cool to sustain the storm and it weakens.
As the ocean absorbs more heat from continued global warming the depth of the warm surface layer increases, allowing storms to continue to build. With a thick enough layer of warm enough water you could build storms much stronger than any we've observed in historical times, but remember that it takes exponential energy to produce linear increases in wind speed.
I have every confidence that we'll see 200 mph hurricanes in the near future. By the time the ocean is warm enough to produce 250 mph storms I doubt there will be any humans alive to witness it.

I read something today on politifact that didn't sound right (conflicts with something I remember reading a long, long time ago). I was going to try to look it up when I had time. But this seems like a good place to ask about it.

There were silly internet rumors that they might make a new classification for Irma, a category 6. It was rated pants on fire. I knew that was the case but my question is about the reason they gave for why.

Politifact:

The idea of creating a Category 6 is often met with skepticism, however.

The most frequently cited reason is that Category 6 would add nothing to the understanding of how destructive the storm would be for buildings and other structures.

"Almost no structures can withstand sustained winds over 155 mph," said Michael M. Bell, an associate professor in atmospheric science at Colorado State University. "At those wind speeds, significant damage or even total destruction of most buildings is expected.

I remember reading somewhere that it's not just for "my amp goes to 11" reasons, or that 155mph destroys everything so it doesn't matter anyway. Thats not why there's no Cat6. There's an actual physical reason the pressures and wind speeds can't go beyond certain levels, it's self-limited by some physics principle. At a certain point it starts to work against itself. A hurricane can be worse because it's bigger but it's physically impossible for it to strengthen beyond a certain point.

I know a hurricane depends on the hot water and as it sucks up the water it cools it and that's one way it slows itself down, but I thought there was more to it than that.