according to an update from the US National Hurricane Center, confirming its ranking on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale. The current Atlantic hurricane season has produced 17 storms ...

Rafael became a hurricane while churning toward the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to inflict damaging winds and heavy rains on populated areas from the Cayman Islands to South Florida. Winds reached ...

making it a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. As for the storm's possible threat to the U.S. mainland, NHC forecasters said Rafael is expected to track due west this ...

"The Saffir-Simpson Scale tells you peak wind (associated with a tropical storm or hurricane) but it may not be that over your community. It doesn't allow you to evaluate the risk to yourself.

Hurricane Center hopes new cone stops 'fixation' on Saffir-Simpson Scale Before the new cone was first released for Hurricane Ernesto on Aug. 14, Jamie Rhome, deputy director of the National ...

"The Saffir-Simpson Scale tells you peak wind (associated with a tropical storm or hurricane) but it may not be that over your community. It doesn't allow you to evaluate the risk to yourself. This ...

Hurricanes are rated according to intensity of sustained winds on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. The 1-5 scale estimates potential property damage. A Category 3 or higher is considered a ...

Two of the key metrics of forecasting -- the "cone of uncertainty," which represents the probable track of the center of a tropical cyclone, and the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, which ranks the ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted “an extremely active” hurricane season ... creation of a Category 6 on the Saffir–Simpson Scale, the standard gauge for ...