After receiving feedback from nearly 500 people about revising NOAA's Space Weather Scales, scientists continue to assess ...

The Dance of Warm Oceans and Cool Skies Hurricanes don't just pop out of nowhere; they need the perfect mix of ingredients to ...

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale was developed in 1971 and unveiled to the public in 1973. Here’s a look at the system ...

Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia is bearing down on the northwest coast of Australia and is likely to make landfall early Friday evening.

The intensity of Hurricanes is rated by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which assigns each storm a rating of 1-5 based on its wind speed. However it's important to note that the Saffir ...

Tropical storms can cause large-scale damage and danger to life. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are all names used to refer to violent, rotating, tropical storms. The term for these storms ...

The CMC’s approach will mirror the methodologies used for physical events, such as the Richter scale for earthquakes and the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale for hurricanes. After a year in stealth ...