Hurricane season officially starts Monday, and scientists are debating whether the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale should ...

A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6. Studies have shown ...

Category 6 proposal: Researchers suggest adding a new top category for storms above 192 mph, pointing to trends in recent decades toward stronger hurricanes. Season outlook: Forecasters expect a ...

Since the 1970s, hurricane wind strength has been measured using the Saffir-Simpson scale, with categories from 1 to the most intense, 5, packing winds 157 mph or higher. Now with storms that ...

Feb. 6 (UPI) --As climate change is causing more intense storms, a new study is suggesting that the five-scale system by which the potential damage caused by hurricanes is gauged should be revised to ...

Something shifted in the world of meteorology in early 2024 that had scientists and storm researchers talking for months. A landmark study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A handful of super powerful tropical storms ...

With hurricane season in full swing, there's a lot of talk from meteorologists about hurricane "categories." What do they mean, and what do they tell us about a storm? It turns out, a hurricane's ...