Together, engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Robert Simpson ... “minor” or “major” storms. In 1969, Saffir came up ...

Major hurricanes can cause devastating to catastrophic damage and/or loss of life from their winds. You can learn more about ...

On the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, a major hurricane means a Category 3 or higher. The scale includes five categories based on the storm's sustained wind speeds. It also estimates ...

Both storms were categorized as major hurricanes - that’s a Category 3 or higher. And those categories, they’re known as the Saffir-Simpson scale, likely saved many lives by warning of the potential ...

The Saffir-Simpson scale, though widely known and used for more than 50 years, has major flaws that make scientists ... the tropical cyclone based on these categories and that is probably the ...

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind ... and the storms strengthen up the scale from there. If a hurricane is Category 3 or higher, it is considered a major hurricane. Category 3 hurricanes start ...

confirming its ranking on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale. The current Atlantic hurricane season has produced 17 storms, three more than average.

The scale that ranks hurricanes – officially known as the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale ... memory for west-central Florida, with only major hurricane strikes in 1848 and 1921 comparable ...

This infrared satellite images shows Hurricane Milton in the Gulf of Mexico as a major Category 5 hurricane ... of a Category 6 on the Saffir–Simpson Scale, the standard gauge for measuring ...

For the second time in two weeks, Florida is bracing for a major hurricane ... the intensity of hurricanes with the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which assigns a rating of 1-5 to hurricanes ...

We call it the Saffir-Simpson scale. If it's a category three ... but find a way to apply categories to the other major hazards. If you said, "Okay, it's a category one in terms of wind, but ...

The Tampa area was last hit by the eye of a major hurricane on Oct. 25 ... registers as a Category 1 or 2 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. A Category 1 storm has sustained wind speeds ...