From grocery stores to neighborhoods, a hurricane's category might be among the most discussed aspects of a threatening storm. Those categories are based on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, ...

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 ...

This scale – officially known as the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale – is a rating based on maximum sustained wind speed, which ranges from 74 to 157 mph, or higher. The scale was developed by ...

Authors of a new study said they hope to "raise awareness that the wind-hazard risk from storms presently designated as Category 5 has increased" Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE.

Hurrica ne Milton is on a path right towards Florida, strengthening into a Category 5 powerhouse Monday with sustained winds of 160 mph before making landfall later this week. Milton is estimated to ...

Amid warming oceans and increasing rapid intensification of tropical cyclones, a new study suggests expanding the hurricane wind scale to include a Category 6 with winds over 192 mph. Climate ...

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The second commercial-scale offshore wind farm was approved by the Biden administration just a week after the groundbreaking for the first. The South Fork Wind project, which will be off the coasts of ...