Heavy Downpours Threaten Flash Flooding Across the Sunshine State Before Potential Strengthening into Tropical Depression A tropical rainstorm is unleashing widespread heavy downpours across the ...

As of Monday evening, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has a 40% chance of tropical development either east or west of ...

Storms like Chantal are categorized based on one danger marker. Lower category storms are still extremely dangerous due to ...

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Tropical cyclones typically drop large amounts of rain along and near the storm's path. The slower and more significant the ...

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

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

Once a tropical storm's wind speed hits 74 mph or more, it becomes a hurricane and is categorized using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which ranks hurricanes from Category 1 to Category ...

With hurricane season officially underway, we explore whether or not the Saffir-Simpson scale is the best way to rate a hurricane's strength.

But what do those category numbers — 1 through 5 — actually mean? The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is used to rank hurricanes based on their sustained wind speeds.

The traditional Saffir-Simpson scale categorizes hurricanes on a 1 to 5 rating system based on maximum sustained wind speed, with a Category 5 bearing winds of at least 157 mph.

Tropical systems tracked by the National Hurricane Center will be classified as depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes based on their intensity. Here's how the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale ...