That’s why researchers in South Florida are proposing the idea of an “Enhanced Hurricane Scale.” The goal would be to rate ...

For the last few years, I have opined about the inadequacy of the Saffir — Simpson scale for conveying the full impacts of hurricanes. Harvey (2017), Milton (2024) and Helene (2024) are examples of ...

Her newly proposed hurricane category scale accounts for not just wind risk, but also rainfall and storm surge. Jennifer Collins, a researcher and School of Geosciences at USF professor, is helping ...

A University of South Florida researcher and a team from the Netherlands are proposing a new way to measure hurricane severity. Jennifer Collins had been studying evacuation patterns when she saw ...

From Category 1 to Category 5, hurricane forecasters' famous rating system has become ingrained in the minds of millions of Americans from Texas to Maine. The scale, known as the Saffir-Simpson ...

As hurricane season begins, experts are debating whether to add a category 6 to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale due to increasingly intense storms.

Thought Category 5 was as bad as a hurricane could get? Think again. As Hurricane Melissa barrels off into the Atlantic after devastating Jamaica and Cuba, some scientists say the age of Category 6 ...

Hurricane Erin reached Category 5 status with 160 mph winds on Saturday, August 16th. Erin is expected to continue intensifying. While researchers have proposed a Category 6 for hurricanes exceeding ...