Erin formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean on Monday and is strengthening as it moves westward. The NHC said there is still ...

As summer peaks, so does the Atlantic hurricane season, and the first major storm is now on our doorstep. According to the ...

Erin could potentially strengthen to sustain wind speeds of over 115 miles per hour in the next four days, making it a ...

Tropical Storm Erin is brewing in the Atlantic as we enter the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season. The storm is expected ...

Major hurricane status, with wind speeds greater than 110 mph, is expected by Saturday morning just north of the Dominican ...

Created in the early 1970s by Herbert Saffir, a US civil engineer, and later added to by Robert Simpson, a meteorologist, the scale measures a storm's maximum sustained wind speed.

Under the current Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale, which is used to rank hurricanes forming over the Atlantic, hurricanes with maximum sustained wind speeds above 157mph are classed as Category 5 major ...

Currently Irma is a category 2 hurricane as it rages overs east coast Florida. A category 1 hurricane consists of wind speeds from 74-95 mph (119-153 km/h) according to the Saffir-Simpson scale.

Hurricanes are ranked from one to five on the Saffir-Simpson scale, with five being the most intense. The scale was developed back in the 1970s by a wind engineer and a meteorologist.

Bob Simpson, the meteorologist who co-developed the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale which estimates potential property damage, has died at 102.

The water problem Created in the early 1970s by Herbert Saffir, a US civil engineer, and later added to by Robert Simpson, a meteorologist, the scale measures a storm's maximum sustained wind speed.