It’s a number attached to every hurricane, crucial to emergency response teams and city officials to mobilize preparedness: the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, characterized by five ...
The storm received the lowest ranking on the official hurricane categorisation, the Saffir-Simpson scale, due to its wind speeds of 75mph (120km/h). But storms that just clip in at the lower end ...
Hurricanes are ranked from one to five on the Saffir-Simpson scale, with five being the most intense. The scale was developed back in the 1970s by a wind engineer and a meteorologist. Hurricanes ...
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