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.

For the last few years, I have opined about the inadequacy of the Saffir — Simpson scale for conveying the full impacts of hurricanes. Harvey (2017), Milton (2024) and Helene (2024) are examples of ...

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% ...

Wind alone does not account for all hurricane-related fatalities. Storm surge and rainfall do as well. Yet the current warning system—the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale—measures a storm's ...

Hurricanes have been rated from one to five for decades, but this scale has some flaws. The scale is limited to rating just maximum sustained winds within a storm. This means it doesn’t include winds ...