A new study by USF's Jennifer Collins finds that current hurricane warnings, which focus only on wind, fail to capture the ...

The scale has been in use for decades and gives an idea about what kind of wind damage a hurricane can produce, but it says nothing about impacts from storm surge, flooding rain and tornadoes.

TOLEDO, Ohio — Every summer, hurricane season rolls in with a swirl of names, warnings, and numbers. But what do those category numbers — 1 through 5 — actually mean? The Saffir-Simpson ...

A new paper published in Nature Scientific Reports finds that in order to keep people safe, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind ...

Each time you hear a meteorologist talk about a hurricane by category, it is a rating, Cat.1 to 5, as designated by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

Category what? Hurricane breakdowns, from the ‘very dangerous' to ‘catastrophic' The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale determines storm categories. Milton is a Category 5 storm on a path ...

Amid warming oceans and increasing rapid intensification of tropical cyclones, a new study suggests expanding the hurricane wind scale to include a Category 6 with winds over 192 mph. Climate ...

Scientists warn that future hurricanes will be off charts of current scale: 'We do need a new category' first appeared on The Cool Down.

The scale has been in use for decades and gives an idea about what kind of wind damage a hurricane can produce, but it says nothing about impacts from storm surge, flooding rain and tornadoes.