AUSTIN (KXAN) — As hurricane season is quickly approaching, let’s remind you about the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale. This scale is designed to categorize hurricanes based on wind speed and is ...

First Helene, now Milton. Two major hurricanes battered or are set to batter parts of Florida in the last week and a half, which has many trying to understand the scale of the weather systems. The ...

Editor's note: Read USA TODAY's coverage of Helene's landfall and impacts for Friday, Sept. 27. As monster storms like Helene approach the U.S., meteorologists use five categories to help signal the ...

Tropical systems begin as tropical depressions, which are areas of low pressure with wind speeds of up to 38 miles per hour. When those winds strengthen and reach between 39 and 73 miles per hour, the ...