"It is more than kind of distressing because you don't know when and you don't know how," said Ewan Simpson, who lives in ...

Officials are pleading with Jamaican residents to prepare as a deadly Category 5 hurricane rushes towards the Caribbean ...

TAMPA, Fla. - For decades, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale has served as the only way to categorize hurricanes, ranking cyclones from Category 1 to 5 based on sustained wind speeds, but ...

For the last few years, I have opined about the inadequacy of the Saffir — Simpson scale for conveying the full impacts of hurricanes. Harvey (2017), Milton (2024) and Helene (2024) are examples of ...

Hurricane Melissa has reached Category 5 strength before making landfall late tonight or early tomorrow in Haiti or Jamaica.

As climate change continues to reshape the intensity and behavior of hurricanes, meteorologists and researchers are examining whether the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, a decades-old ...