Comment on Milton update: How are hurricanes categorized and why is there no Category 6?

A trend of rapidly intensifying storms, fueled by warm ocean water, may once again reignite the debate over how hurricanes are categorized, and why they stop at 5. In a matter of hours, Hurricane Milton grew into a Category 5 storm on Monday, with wind speeds surging by an astonishing 90 mph in just over a day, a process meteorologists call “rapid intensification.”

According to RJ Pangelinan, Denver’s late-night food scene is desperately lacking — and he would know. Pangelinan is an electronic music producer — stage name Bear Grillz — who has performed at popular venues throughout the Mile High City. He’s also a Denver resident, and after an evening spent throwing down dubstep beats for crowds at Red Rocks Amphitheatre or Mission Ballroom, he typically works up an appetite. “Every time I’m done we want to eat food and all that’s open is pizza.

Tampa hasn’t been in the direct path of a major hurricane in over a century. The last time the eye of a major storm like Hurricane Milton struck Tampa Bay, in 1921, the city was a sleepy backwater of a few hundred thousand people. A century later, it’s among the fastest-growing metropolises in the United States, with more than 3 million people, and highly vulnerable to flooding due to climate change.

NEW YORK — More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, alleging the popular short-form video app is harming youth mental health by designing its platform to be addictive to kids. The lawsuits stem from a national investigation into TikTok, which was launched in March 2022 by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from many states, including California, Kentucky and New Jersey.

(NEW YORK) — More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, alleging the popular short-form video app is harming youth mental health by designing its platform to be addictive to kids. The lawsuits stem from a national investigation into TikTok, which was launched in March 2022 by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from many states, including California, Kentucky and New Jersey.

Now that a new billion-dollar project has governmental approval, a long-awaited face-lift of the west side of the tony Cherry Creek shopping district will move forward. Cherry Creek West is a 13-acre mixed-use redevelopment that will offer about 825 residences, 600,000 square feet of office space, 100,000 square feet of retail, a reservoir of underground parking with over 2,000 spaces and 4 acres of open space. It will be the latest development for an area the city’s Blueprint Denver land use plan predicted would become a “regional center” by 2040.