On this week’s “Weather “Wednesday,” we explore the Saffir-Simpson as HURRICANE SEASON 2025 begins to sizzle in both the Gulf of America and ...

Tropical development is possible from the southern Atlantic coast to the northeastern Gulf through the first full week of ...

A broad area of weakly spinning low pressure could slowly consolidate and develop into a tropical storm along the ...

The National Hurricane Center uses the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale to categorize hurricanes. Hurricanes are assigned Category 1-5 depending on their wind speeds. We break down the ...

Hurricane season in the Crossroads region began on June 1 and will run through November. Hurricanes can have a devastating ...

There's now a 40% chance for a tropical or subtropical depression forming near Florida by the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Introduced in the 1960s and refined in the 1970s, the Saffir–Simpson scale is still the most commonly used metric for public communication of the possible wind hazards for hurricanes. Since the ...

You’ve heard of the Richter scale for earthquakes. The Saffir-Simpson scale for hurricanes. But here’s one you probably haven’t come across: the Waffle House Index. It’s not satire.

Erick's categorization on the Saffir-Simpson scale — which helps officials determine wind hazards of an approaching hurricane — only accounts for wind, and not the elements that tend to be the ...