Tropical Storm Erin formed in the central Atlantic Ocean on Monday morning and is forecast to strengthen, likely becoming the Atlantic season's first major hurricane. The National Hurricane Center ...

Erin was a tropical storm in the North Atlantic Ocean Monday morning Eastern time, the National Hurricane Center said in its ...

But the season is still expected to be above normal. An average Atlantic hurricane season generates 14 named storms. NOAA ...

Meteorologist Zack Webster breaks down the number of hurricanes that have developed in the Atlantic over the last ten years, ...

The National Hurricane Center uses the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale which estimates potential property damage using a 1 to 5 rating depending on the sustained wind speed of a specific ...

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

At 74 mph, the system is a hurricane. What is the Saffir-Simpson scale and what does it have to do with hurricanes? The tropical system is assigned a category depending on its wind speed.

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale was developed in 1971 and unveiled to the public in 1973.

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale was developed in 1971 and unveiled to the public in 1973. Here’s a look at the system that ranks tropical cyclones by their potential destructive power, how it ...

The scale has been in use for decades and gives an idea about what kind of wind damage a hurricane can produce, but it says nothing about impacts from storm surge, flooding rain and tornadoes.