After Hurricane Helene devastated mountain towns in Appalachia and Hurricane Milton followed with winds reaching upwards of ...

So a growing number of meteorologists are calling for a different way of categorizing and quantifying the destructiveness of ...

Some experts argue that we need a Category 6 classification for hurricanes with wind speeds exceeding 192 mph.

Live updates and developments about Hurricane Milton, which made landfall near Sarasota, Florida , after spawning tornadoes.

The Saffir-Simpson scale only has five levels. While a "Category 6" has been discussed hypothetically, it's not a real ...

On October 7th Milton went from not being a hurricane at all to having wind speeds of over 250kph in under 25 hours. The ...

The maximum sustained wind determines the strength of a hurricane on the Saffir Simpson Scale. A wind gust is a sudden ...

The largest hurricane would be considered based on several factors, including size/radius, category/intensity, and casualties ...

Hurricane Milton has made landfall in Florida as a Category 3 storm near Siesta Key in Sarasota County. Milton is bringing ...

Hurricane Milton is predicted to hit Florida's Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm. Get to know the Saffir-Simpson wind scale and its hurricane levels ...

Milton will be a surge event unlike any hurricane in living memory for west-central Florida, with only major hurricane strikes in 1848 and 1921 comparable in scope and height of the coastal flooding, ...

“The open-endedness of the Saffir-Simpson scale can lead to underestimation of risk, particularly as this underestimation becomes increasingly problematic in a warming world,” Dr Wehner sai ...