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.

So why not create a Category 6? The NHC’s scale intentionally ends at Category 5, and adding another category would not necessarily provide more useful information about the overall danger of a ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an above-average Atlantic hurricane season from June 1 through Nov. 30. A Northeastern researcher says the forecast of six to 10 ...

Hurricanes are categorized by their maximum sustained winds using the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, with categories ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Earlier Sunday, Genevieve was a Category 3 storm with 120 mph winds as it churned over the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean.

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, ...