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

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?

In the remote and hostile realm of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, powerful winds known as low-level jets (LLJs) ...

Tropical systems tracked by the National Hurricane Center will be classified as depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes ...

The scale has been in use for decades and gives an idea about what kind of wind damage a hurricane can produce, but it says ...

High winds can cause a lot of damage, and the wind speeds don't have to be as high as you may think. How high does the wind speed need to be to uproot a tree? Here's what we know. A tree can be ...

A warmer world is not good news for the wind power industry — a recent study found that heat dampens wind speeds. Consolidated Energy Consultants Ltd (CECL), a wind energy consultancy based in ...

This chart presents the daily average wind speeds, along with a record of climatology (the line) and vector-averaged wind direction for Denver International Airport. 11 of the 24 days so far this ...

We're tracking wind speeds from key weather stations throughout ... Labels show the highest and latest points on each chart.

As Cyclone Alfred begins to batter the south-east Queensland coast and across the border into New South Wales, it's forecast to create destructive wind gusts ... on each chart. Speeds shown ...

Even small declines in wind speeds could slash wind power generation, the lead researcher Gan Zhang, a climate scientist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, told Bloomberg.