At least two areas in the Atlantic show signs of potential tropical development, once of which could impact land. The next ...

The storm is bringing dangerous conditions to parts of the coast on Wednesday, but will then turn away from the United States ...

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is a 1 to 5 rating based only on a hurricane's maximum sustained wind speed. This scale does not take into account other potentially deadly hazards such as ...

NOAA uses the Saffir-Simpson scale and calls them Category 5 hurricanes, which is a major hurricane. Australia and Fiji in the South Pacific also grade tropical cyclones on a scale of 1 to 5. In the ...

Hurricane Ian made landfall Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane, the second-most dangerous rating on the Saffir-Simpson intensity scale. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS) ...

Most recent near-misses include Cyclone Fakir in 2018, a Category 1 equivalent on the Saffir-Simpson scale, and Category 3 Cyclone Bejisa 2013.

Hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean Basin are running on average a category stronger on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale than without climate change and its associated warming, a new study says.

The Saffir-Simpson Scale rates hurricanes on winds. The new proposed scale being devloped by Jennifer Collins. professor in the School of Geosciences at the University of South Florida includes ...

The Saffir-Simpson Scale doesn’t capture that right now, and that is a much bigger discussion that we absolutely need to be funding and to be doing more work on, and we need to be basing it on ...

As Milton downgrades to Category 4, it’s important to understand the classification system used for hurricanes. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale ranges from Category 1 to Category 5 ...

Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale already captures ‘Catastrophic Damage’ from wind, so it’s not clear that there would be a need for another category even if storms were to get stronger.