Roads are flooding and power outages soaring in Florida as the state braces for significant damage from Hurricane Helene. The ...

The most common way to measure a hurricane's strength is the Saffir-Simpson Scale that assigns a category from 1 to 5 based ...

Hurricane Helene is expected to make landfall on Thursday night in the Florida Panhandle. But its not the first storm with ...

And in the case of Hurricane Helene, predicted storm surge could be devastating in the coastal areas of the state's Big Bend, ...

Heavy rain: The National Weather Service says some areas in western Virginia have already seen upwards of eight inches of ...

That’s a jump of about two categories on the Saffir-Simpson scale, which grades hurricane strength from 1 to 5. Hurricane ...

The hurricane scale classifies storms based on wind speeds and predicts potential impacts, which can help people prepare for ...

This will cause the hurricane to upgrade to a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale with maximum sustained ...

The Saffir-Simpson scale that measures hurricane strength wasn't in use until the 1970s. Had it been, the first Helene would ...

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

A hurricane's category describes potential wind damage but does not describe other deadly hurricane hazards such as storm surge.

Ahead of Hurricane Helene's landfall, forecasters are predicting it will hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane. Here's what ...