wind speed, storm surge and damage potential. There are five categories of hurricanes that make up the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale. They are Category 1, Category 2, Category 3, Category 4 and ...

Each time you hear a meteorologist talk about a hurricane by category, it is a rating ... the expected effects of hurricanes based on wind speed. He came up with a scale that showed expected ...

While we call the systems tropical cyclones here in Australia, they're called typhoons in the Northwest Pacific Ocean and hurricanes ... category two cyclone as having a maximum mean wind speed ...

Human-caused climate change is intensifying Atlantic hurricanes, with rising ocean temperatures adding an average of 18 mph to wind speeds ... two hurricanes reached Category 5 status — storms ...

By Wednesday night, more than 2 million customers were ... officials said. The wind speeds made Ian a Category 1 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. It was a Category 4 storm with ...