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 ...

The AccuWeather RealImpact™ Scale for Hurricanes categorizes storms on a six-point scale. Like the Saffir-Simpson Scale, the AccuWeather RealImpact™ Scale for Hurricanes uses a 1 to 5 rating but also ...

Developing storm near Cabo Verde Islands expected to intensify; Major hurricane potential in open Atlantic A tropical ...

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

Read more here. The Saffir Simpson Scale uses wind to categorize storms, but it's not the end all be all. Think you know all about potential tropical cyclones? There have been some recent changes.

Hurricanes are categorized by the Saffir-Simpson scale based on wind speed on a scale of 1 to 5. When a hurricane has sustained winds of at least 111 miles per hour, it is defined as a major ...

A rating system, called the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, is used to determine the category of a hurricane based on sustained wind speeds. Hurricanes are broken into five categories.

Winds in most hurricanes can become much stronger, and hurricanes are categorized on a scale of 1 to 5 based on their wind speed, known as the Saffir-Simpson Scale.

With the tropics likely ramping up through August, Meteorologist Ryan Dugger reviews the Saffir-Simpson Scale and the wind speeds of each hurricane category.

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

A meteorologist with the weather service will discuss why people should look beyond the five Saffir-Simpson categories that define hurricane severity based on sustained wind speed when monitoring ...