Researchers at the University of South Florida have proposed a new Tropical Cyclone Severity Scale that factors in wind, ...

Storm surge and floodng are the deadliest aspects of hurricanes, yet the current scale uses wind information. University of ...

A University of South Florida researcher and a team from the Netherlands are proposing a new way to measure hurricane ...

For decades, the Saffir-Simpson scale has rated hurricanes solely by wind strength, from Category 1 to 5. But researchers say ...

The new scale is called the Tropical Cyclone Severity Scale (TCSS) and it provides a different category for each hazard (wind ...

Mario continues to lose strength as it enters colder waters but the associated subtropical moisture will bring clouds, ...

Tropical Depression Seven has strengthened into Gabrielle over the central Atlantic, and is forecast to bring wind, rain, and ...

Researchers are pushing to replace the wind-only hurricane scale with a new system that also measures storm surge and ...

Tampa Bay saw firsthand last year the deadly and catastrophic impacts of storm surge and rainfall from hurricanes. Yet, the ...

Kiko surged to Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale with maximum sustained winds near 145 mph.

The current hurricane scale might be putting lives in danger — and most people don’t even know it. The Saffir-Simpson Scale only measures wind speed, but 80% of hurricane-related deaths come from ...

The major hurricane was more than 1,000 miles away from Hilo, Hawaii, but forecasters say Kiko could have impacts on the ...