Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From grocery stores to neighborhoods, a hurricane's category might be among the most discussed aspects of a threatening storm.

The hurricane severity scale used today only measures wind, not storm surge or rainfall. USF professor Jennifer Collins helped develop a new system called the Tropical Cyclone Severity Scale.

The National Hurricane Center is excited about its launch of the new cone of concern, coming in just a few weeks. The experimental tropical cyclone forecast cone graphic will be coming out in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — NOAA forecasters are predicting an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season in 2024, saying there's an 85% ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The Saffir-Simpson Scale. You've heard of it, you've even used it to talk about hurricanes with your friends and family. But how much do you really know about it? Each time you hear a ...

SHORT TERM THREATS, ESPECIALLY FOR FLORIDA AND FOR THE GULF COAST? SO THERE ARE TWO KEY FACTORS THAT HAVE RESULTED IN A VERY ACTIVE HURRICANE SEASON FORECAST. ONE OF THOSE IS THE UNUSUAL WARMTH ACROSS ...

The already dangerously powerful Category 5 hurricane Melissa surged up to 180 mph maximum sustained winds with gusts over 210 mph Tuesday morning, Oct. 28, according to an update from the National ...

One was a structural engineer who thought in the ways engineers are trained to — logically and result-oriented. The other, was a meteorologist who, at age 6, had survived one of the deadliest ...

The insurance industry faces significant challenges in covering catastrophic risks, especially as climate change drives more extreme weather events. With soaring premiums and increasing exclusions, ...

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 ...

Herbert Saffir, 90, an engineer who created the five-category system used to describe hurricane strength and warn millions of an approaching storm's danger, died Nov. 21 at South Miami Hospital in ...