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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Category 1 to Category 5, hurricane forecasters' famous rating system has become ingrained in the minds of millions of ...

One was a structural engineer who thought in the ways engineers are trained to — logically and result-oriented. The other, was a meteorologist who, at age 6, had survived one of the deadliest ...

ATLANTA — When hurricanes form, the category number is often the first thing people want to know, and it's important to understand what the ratings really mean. Hurricanes are ranked on the ...

Tropical systems tracked by the National Hurricane Center will be classified as depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes based on their intensity. Tropical Storm Edouard makes Gulf landfall as ...

Most of us are familiar with how hurricanes are categorized. Storms are ranked from Category 1 to Category 5 based on their wind speeds using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. The scale was ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The Saffir-Simpson scale: you've heard of it, you've even used it to talk about hurricanes with your friends and family. But how much do you really know about it? Each time you hear a ...

So why not create a Category 6? The NHC’s scale intentionally ends at Category 5, and adding another category would not necessarily provide more useful information about the overall danger of a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale is a five-category scale used to describe the strength of a hurricane and the damage that can be expected. The scale no longer uses storm ...

From Category 1 to Category 5, hurricane forecasters' famous rating system has become ingrained in the minds of millions of Americans from Texas to Maine. The scale, known as the Saffir-Simpson ...