The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is used to rank hurricanes based on their sustained wind speeds. While the category ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an above-average Atlantic hurricane season from June 1 ...

Tropical systems are categorized by wind speed, but experts say there's much more to the story when it comes to storm impacts ...

What is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale? The scale rates the potential for damage from hurricanes based on the storm’s sustained wind speed. Who were Saffir and Simpson?

The deadly sandstorm and rainfall across Delhi-NCR on Wednesday serves as a stark reminder of the importance of preparedness ...

As the calendar turns to late May, a familiar dread is sweeping across Bangladesh’s coastal belt –the threat of ...

A midst a series of high wind gust a peak wind speed of 253 miles per hour (407 kilometers per hour) was accurately measured by an anemometer during Tropical Cyclone Olivia, making it the highest ...

SUNRISE, Wash. — A bomb cyclone that developed off the coast of Washington produced high-speed wind gusts across a large swath of the Pacific Northwest, reaching from Vancouver Island to the ...

The centre of Cyclone Mocha made landfall Sunday afternoon in Myanmar's Rakhine state, near Sittwe township, with wind speeds up to ... Earlier in the day, high winds crumpled cellphone towers ...

It has delivered Australia’s highest ten-minute sustained wind speed record at landfall: about 218 kilometres per hour. The previous record of 194km per hour came from tropical cyclone George in ...

Cyclone Amphan has begun landfall in the coastal ... While coastal areas are now experiencing a wind-speed of 140-150 km/hr, wind speeds in Kolkata (as per Alipore Met Department readings) is ...