The scale has been in use for decades and gives an idea about what kind of wind damage a hurricane can produce.

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 ...

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 ...

The Saffir–Simpson scale is useful because it makes wind intensity easy to communicate. Understanding its limits is just as important: the most dangerous hurricane is not always the one with the ...

Hurricane Melissa is approaching Jamaica as a Category 5 storm with 180 mph winds. A recent study suggests global warming is fueling more intense and rapidly strengthening hurricanes. Scientists have ...

Many people are already wondering just how high the Saffir-Simpson wind scale goes – Will Irma become a Category 6 or even a Category 7 storm? A Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale has no ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The already dangerously powerful Category 5 hurricane Melissa surged up to 180 mph maximum sustained winds with gusts over 210 mph ...