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Tropical Storm Melissa was giving hurricane forecasters headaches on Wednesday as it continued to sit in the Caribbean Sea. Melissa, the 13th named storm of 2025 in the Atlantic, is expected to slowly strengthen and could become a hurricane as soon as ...
According to the NHC, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Robert Homer Simpson, is a rating of 1 to 5 based on a hurricane's sustained wind speed and its potential for significant loss of life and damage.