The Saffir-SimpsonHurricaneScale sets categories for the relative strength of hurricanes that may impact the United States based on the sustained wind speed. The scale places the storms into one of five categories. Since the 1990s, only wind speed has been used to categorizehurricanes. To estimate...
The Saffir-SimpsonHurricaneScale sets categories for the relative strength of hurricanes that may impact the United States based on the sustained wind speed. The scale places the storms into one of five categories. Since the 1990s, only wind speed has been used to categorizehurricanes. To estimate...
In the heat of the sun, the ocean is the boiler and condenser of a gigantic steam engine, a weather engine that governs crops, floods, droughts, frosts, hurricanes. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau In 'Ocean Policy and Reasonable Utopias', The Forum (Summer 1981), 16, No. 5, 900. ...