A recent study joins a growing chorus of calls for experts to adopt a new intensity scale to rank the power of hurricanes. The current Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale (SSHWS) only takes into ...

(Reuters) - Hurricane Ian approached Florida's Gulf Coast [last] Wednesday as a powerful storm just one rating shy of the highest category designation given to storms in the United States. Storm ...

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 ...

Tropical systems tracked by the National Hurricane Center will be classified as depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes based on their intensity. The NHC will label a system a tropical depression ...

A University of South Florida researcher and a team from the Netherlands are proposing a new way to measure hurricane severity. Jennifer Collins had been studying evacuation patterns when she saw ...

Herbert Saffir, an engineer who created the five-category system used to describe hurricane strength and warn millions of an approaching storm's danger, has died. He was 90. Saffir died Wednesday from ...

A proposed “Tropical Cyclone Severity Scale” could do a better job at relaying a storm’s hazards than the current Saffir-Simpson scale A recent study joins a growing chorus of calls for experts to ...