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

When hurricanes form, the category number is often the first thing people want to know. It's important to understand what the ...

If you happen to turn on the news during hurricane season and a storm is a-brewin,' there's a good chance that one of the anchors will mention a tropical storm has been upgraded and is now designated ...

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 ...

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 ...