The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale was developed in 1971 and unveiled ... likely flooding and storm surge as determining factors. Saffir took his work to Simpson, who was the head of the ...

The Saffir-Simpson Scale. You've heard of it ... Robert Simpson then added associated storm surge and flooding typical with the various categories of hurricanes. Over time, they determined ...

Klotzbach presented on Tuesday at the National Hurricane Conference where he said pressure correlates better with hurricane damage than wind – which is what the Saffir-Simpson Scale identifies.

The Saffir-Simpson scale, introduced in 1970 ... which include storm surge, wind, rainfall, tornadoes and rip currents, instead of the particular category of the storm, which only provides ...

"The simple 1-5 ordinal Saffir-Simpson Scale gets people's attention and a 3 or higher usually prompts people to take protective action, or motivates those in low lying surge or flood prone areas ...

The National Hurricane Center now lists Hurricane Milton as one of the strongest hurricanes on record in the Atlantic Basin.

While a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Marcus in the Southern Indian Ocean. On March 22, 2018 2:30 a ...

The hurricane caused significant damage in Sarasota, Tampa Bay, and Southwest Florida, including tornadoes and storm surge ... (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) with a minimum central ...