The Saffir-Simpson Scale rates hurricanes on winds. The new proposed scale being devloped by Jennifer Collins. professor in ...

It's still early, but with three hurricanes making landfall in Florida this year, the new cone is making clear how far inland ...

So a growing number of meteorologists are calling for a different way of categorizing and quantifying the destructiveness of ...

Hurricane Milton is a Category 5. With more intense storms becoming more frequent, do we need something higher than Category 5 to describe them?

Some experts argue that we need a Category 6 classification for hurricanes with wind speeds exceeding 192 mph.

With Hurricane Milton's winds surpassing 180 mph on Monday and the storm already being classified as the second-strongest ...

Hurricanes are ranked on a scale of 1-5. This scale, known as the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, measures a hurricane’s ...

Milton will be a surge event unlike any hurricane in living memory for west-central Florida, with only major hurricane strikes in 1848 and 1921 comparable in scope and height of the coastal flooding, ...

Rapid intensification is defined by the National Hurricane Center as an increase of at least 30 knots (about 35 mph) in ...

While Hurricane Milton's peak wind speeds were among the strongest ever recorded for an Atlantic hurricane, there isn't ...

The Saffir-Simpson scale only has five levels. While a "Category 6" has been discussed hypothetically, it's not a real ...

Hurricane Milton is predicted to hit Florida's Gulf Coast as a Category 5 storm. Get to know the Saffir-Simpson wind scale and its hurricane levels ...