From Hurricane Helene to Typhoon Yagi, powerful storms are battering the globe, and scientists warn that a warming planet is ...

The Saffir-Simpson Scale rates hurricanes on winds. The new proposed scale being devloped by Jennifer Collins. professor in ...

Hurricane forecasting has made tremendous strides in recent decades, but there is still a disconnect when it comes to the ...

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Kristy has rapidly intensified into a major hurricane, and the storm could get close to Category 5 strength as it pulls farther away from the coast of ...

It's still early, but with three hurricanes making landfall in Florida this year, the new cone is making clear how far inland ...

"Some additional weakening is likely while Oscar moves across the mountainous terrain of eastern Cuba, but Oscar is forecast to be a tropical storm when it moves north of Cuba late today and then ...

That's a leap of about two categories on the Saffir-Simpson scale, which measures hurricane strength and potential damage from 1 to 5. "Rapid intensification occurs when a tropical storm or ...

After Hurricane Helene devastated mountain towns in Appalachia and Hurricane Milton followed with winds reaching upwards of ...

Just two weeks after Helene barreled across Florida as a Category 4 hurricane and ripped through five other states, Category ...

A storm system that meteorologists previously believed had a minimal chance of developing into a tropical system now may become the next named storm, Nadine.

So a growing number of meteorologists are calling for a different way of categorizing and quantifying the destructiveness of ...

Meteorologist Darius Mack explains Hurricane Milton and the factors that contributed to the system's extreme rapid increase ...