CLEVELAND — When you hear the word hurricane, you probably imagine roofs ripped off homes, flooded streets and families forced to evacuate to higher ground. These storms are often deadly and ...

Hurricanes are classified on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which ranks storms based on their sustained wind speeds and estimates potential damage. The scale has five categories, ranging ...

Ocean heat is quietly rewriting the rules of the planet’s most dangerous storms, loading hurricanes with more fuel than the current scale was ever designed to capture. As those waters warm, a growing ...