As a small child growing up in Florida in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when a hurricane hit, there were no categories like we have today to describe the storm’s wind intensity. This writer just ...

Record-breaking Hurricane Melissa has renewed calls to amend the scale used to classify the strength of a hurricane and estimate the potential damage it could inflict when it makes landfall. Some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you hear terms like Category 1, Category 3 or even the rare Category 5 mentioned regarding hurricanes, what is being ...

The already dangerously powerful Category 5 hurricane Melissa surged up to 180 mph maximum sustained winds with gusts over 210 mph Tuesday morning, Oct. 28, according to an update from the National ...

As climate change continues to reshape the intensity and behavior of hurricanes, meteorologists and researchers are examining whether the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, a decades-old ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The easiest and most straightforward way to measure a hurricane's strength is to use the Saffir-Simpson scale. Divided into five categories, the scale designates each hurricane ...

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA (KPLC) - Hurricanes are evaluated in a number of ways. Storms are assigned a category based on winds using the Saffir-Simpson wind scale. This scale only covers the hurricanes ...

Tropical systems tracked by the National Hurricane Center will be classified as depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes based on their intensity. Bertha weakens to tropical depression hours after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The already dangerously powerful Category 5 hurricane Melissa surged up to 180 mph maximum sustained winds with gusts over 210 mph ...

Hurricanes are categorized by their maximum sustained winds using the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, with categories ...