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 ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The easiest and most straightforward way to measure a hurricane's strength is to use the Saffir-Simpson scale. Divided into five categories, the scale designates each hurricane ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Category 1 to Category 5, hurricane forecasters' famous rating system has become ingrained in the minds of millions of ...

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA (KPLC) - Hurricanes are evaluated in a number of ways. Storms are assigned a category based on winds using the Saffir-Simpson wind scale. This scale only covers the hurricanes ...

Most of us are familiar with how hurricanes are categorized. Storms are ranked from Category 1 to Category 5 based on their wind speeds using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. The scale was ...

Tropical systems tracked by the National Hurricane Center will be classified as depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes based on their intensity. Tropical Storm Fay forms in distant Atlantic, NHC ...

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 ...