The hurricane scale: It runs Category 1-5 based on wind speeds. But that could change. Sign up for our Newsletters Phil Klotzbach is a research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Science at ...

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale was developed in 1971 and unveiled to the public in 1973. Here’s a look at the system that ranks tropical cyclones by their potential destructive power ...

The extension of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale — the system used by the National Hurricane Center to rank the strength of hurricanes — to a sixth category is warranted, authors of ...

Created by Sir Francis Beaufort, the scale ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane). Beaufort Scale Day, celebrated May 7, encourages estimating wind speeds and checking predictions against weather ...

AND ONE CLASS THAT I WAS TAKING WITH DOCTOR PHIL KLOTZBACH, WHO YOU MAY KNOW, ISSUES THE COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FORECAST WAS INTERESTING BECAUSE IT WAS DISCUSSING THE HURRICANE SCALE.