On this week’s “Weather “Wednesday,” we explore the Saffir-Simpson as HURRICANE SEASON 2025 begins to sizzle in both the Gulf of America and ...

The National Hurricane Center uses the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale to categorize hurricanes. Hurricanes are assigned Category 1-5 depending on their wind speeds. We break down the ...

Hurricane season in the Crossroads region began on June 1 and will run through November. Hurricanes can have a devastating ...

A zone that has been on AccuWeather meteorologists' radar since mid-June is on the verge of evolving into a tropical rainstorm, which may be the first step toward becoming a tropical depression or ...

Tropical development is possible from the southern Atlantic coast to the northeastern Gulf through the first full week of ...

A broad area of weakly spinning low pressure could slowly consolidate and develop into a tropical storm along the ...

Morning Brief reader Dick in Illinois writes in to ask "Where does 'cats and dogs,' describing heavy rain, come from?" Meteorologist Tiffany Savona: Growing up, I would hear my parents say, “It's ...

There's now a 40% chance for a tropical or subtropical depression forming near Florida by the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Hurricane Flossie has formed in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center. Here's what we know.

Introduced in the 1960s and refined in the 1970s, the Saffir–Simpson scale is still the most commonly used metric for public communication of the possible wind hazards for hurricanes. Since the ...

You’ve heard of the Richter scale for earthquakes. The Saffir-Simpson scale for hurricanes. But here’s one you probably haven’t come across: the Waffle House Index. It’s not satire.