A ridge is an elongated area of relatively high pressure, and its name makes it easy to find on weather charts ... that ranking comes from the Saffir-Simpson Scale, which is only based on ...

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

"This storm is expected to make landfall Wednesday morning as a Category 1 or possibly a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale in western Cuba," AccuWeather Meteorologist ...

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 ...

The Saffir-Simpson Scale rates hurricanes on winds. The new proposed scale being devloped by Jennifer Collins. professor in the School of Geosciences at the University of South Florida includes ...

As the search for missing Texas mother of four Suzanne Simpson moves into its second week, authorities are searching a landfill after searching several other locations, including the woods near ...

The origins of this prediction go back to the 2000 episode “Bart to the Future,” where The Simpsons depicted a future in which Lisa Simpson becomes president, inheriting a chaotic financial ...

per hour, according to the latest advisory from the nation’s weather bureau Tuesday. That makes the storm equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.

Kamala Harris (L) sworn in as U.S. Vice President in Jan., 2021. (R) Lisa Simpson in 'The Simpsons' episode 'Mother and Child Reunion' (2021). Some think the cartoon got one of its predictions wrong.

A report on Facebook by Juventud Técnica magazine highlighted the effects of this Category 3 hurricane, as measured on the Saffir-Simpson scale, which ranges up to 5. The storm hit approximately three ...

Video: Simulation shows full scale of damage on a house from Category 4 storm as Hurricane Ian closes in on Florida The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is a 1 to 5 rating based only on a ...

Cuban State Television has provided updated information on the threatening advance of Hurricane Rafael, which has now escalated to a Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale and is nearing landfall in ...