The Saffir-Simpson Scale rates hurricanes on winds. The new proposed scale being devloped by Jennifer Collins. professor in ...

Hurricane forecasting has made tremendous strides in recent decades, but there is still a disconnect when it comes to the ...

It's still early, but with three hurricanes making landfall in Florida this year, the new cone is making clear how far inland ...

"Some additional weakening is likely while Oscar moves across the mountainous terrain of eastern Cuba, but Oscar is forecast ...

Hurricane Oscar made landfall on Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas and is forecast to strike in eastern Cuba on Sunday ...

That's a leap of about two categories on the Saffir-Simpson scale, which measures hurricane strength and potential damage from 1 to 5. "Rapid intensification occurs when a tropical storm or ...

After Hurricane Helene devastated mountain towns in Appalachia and Hurricane Milton followed with winds reaching upwards of ...

Just two weeks after Helene barreled across Florida as a Category 4 hurricane and ripped through five other states, Category ...

So a growing number of meteorologists are calling for a different way of categorizing and quantifying the destructiveness of ...

Meteorologist Darius Mack explains Hurricane Milton and the factors that contributed to the system's extreme rapid increase ...

Some experts argue that we need a Category 6 classification for hurricanes with wind speeds exceeding 192 mph.

Hurricane Milton made landfall and affected golf courses in Florida near Siesta Key as a Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. At the time, Milton had sustained winds over 120 MPH and spawned a ...