Former Federal Emergency Management Director Craig Fugate has some advice for people following storms: Don't judge their ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The Saffir-Simpson scale is for the two men who helped create it – civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Robert Simpson. Together, these two men developed ...

Hurricanes are categorized by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. This scale classifies hurricanes into five categories based on their sustained wind speeds, with each category representing a ...

Atlantic hurricane season got off to a deadly start as Hurricane Beryl tore across the Caribbean, Mexico and eventually the U ...

The intensity of hurricanes is based off an intensity scale called the Saffir-Simpson scale. The Saffir-Simpson wind scale not only is based off wind, but also measures the potential property ...

Josh Vance stands in the airconditioned entrance of Sunnyside Community Center in Houston, Texas, one of the designated ...

"We have slightly increased our forecast and continue to call for an extremely active Atlantic hurricane season in 2024," CSU ...

A hurricane is considered Category 1 if it has sustained winds between 74 and 95 miles per hour. Hurricanes are not ...

Beryl impacted the Eastern Caribbean Islands as a major Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale with ...

Texas is currently experiencing Beryl as a “tropical cyclone,” a storm with winds between 39 to 73 mph. Last week, Beryl was ...

Hurricane Beryl slammed Texas on Monday, and while Beryl was only a Category 1 cyclone, the storm caused widespread damage in ...

The 8-year-old little boy from Virginia Beach who survived being shot in the head has just turned 9. When ranked by county, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Newport News and Hampton all have worse ...