For decades, the Saffir-Simpson scale has rated hurricanes solely by wind strength, from Category 1 to 5. But researchers say ...

The new scale is called the Tropical Cyclone Severity Scale (TCSS) and it provides a different category for each hazard (wind ...

Many notable hurricanes have ravaged the US coast over the decades, even as this year's peak hurricane week remains rather ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (KGO) -- Blowing ashore with howling 90 mph winds, Florence splintered buildings, trapped hundreds of people, and swamped entire communities along the Carolina coast. Florence was ...

Researchers are pushing to replace the wind-only hurricane scale with a new system that also measures storm surge and ...

A new paper published in Nature Scientific Reports finds that in order to keep people safe, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale should be replaced with the Tropical Cyclone Severity Scale, which ...

The Atlantic hurricane season is June 1st through Nov. 30th. The peak date is Sept. 10th.

With no new tropical development expected in the coming days, the tropics are eerily quiet. Tomorrow – September 10 – is ...