PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The Saffir-Simpson scale is for the two men who helped create it – civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Robert Simpson. Together, these two men developed ...

The intensity of hurricanes is based off an intensity scale called the Saffir-Simpson scale. The Saffir-Simpson wind scale not only is based off wind, but also measures the potential property ...

Beryl impacted the Eastern Caribbean Islands as a major Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale with ...

Texas is currently experiencing Beryl as a “tropical cyclone,” a storm with winds between 39 to 73 mph. Last week, Beryl was ...

As for the expected storm, the Great Lakes Water Authority added it is "prepared to operate the system as designed in the ...

(Reuters) - Powerful Hurricane Beryl was the 2024 Atlantic season's first hurricane and the earliest storm on record to reach ...

Let’s become familiar with the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. This scale from 1 to 5 was introduced in the early 1970s by the NHC, using estimates of peak wind, storm surge, and minimum ...

Hurricane Beryl slammed Texas on Monday, and while Beryl was only a Category 1 cyclone, the storm caused widespread damage in ...

Hurricane Beryl, which had reached a Category 5 strength in the Caribbean, made landfall in Texas as a Category 1 hurricane.

At 4:00 a.m. local time, Hurricane Beryl roared inland with maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour (129 kilometers per hour), bringing with it a , dangerous rise in seawater level — up to seven ...

Follow NBC News' live coverage for the latest updates on Hurricane Beryl which is set to make landfall on the Texas coast.

More than 2.5 million homes and businesses in Texas lost power and at least one person was killed after Hurricane Beryl made ...