The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, so far, has had 13 named storms, six of which made landfall. This season has brought ...

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is a system that rates hurricanes from 1 to 5, based on their sustained wind speeds.

According to the most recent unit status maps released by the company Friday afternoon, Oct. 4, in the wake of Hurricane ...

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene ravaged Florida’s Gulf Coast, another major storm is on course to hammer areas ...

Just days after the devastating impacts of Hurricane Helene, another significant tropical threat to the U.S. is lurking in ...

Large swells from Hurricane Kirk could bring life-threatening surf and rip currents to the East Coast of the U.S. by Sunday.

By the time Hurricane Helene reached western North Carolina a week ago, causing devastating floods, it was no longer a ...

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

A major hurricane is a Category 3 or above on the Saffir-Simpson Scale of Hurricane Intensity. Current forecast models show the system curving north into the middle of the Atlantic, well away from ...

Hurricane Kirk is expected to strengthen bringing swells to the U.S. east coast on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said.

Though we tend to pay most attention to a hurricane’s wind speed, characterised by the Saffir-Simpson scale that gives them their category, it may not always be the most damaging consequence of ...

In a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Mann added his voice to calls for the Saffir-Simpson scale to be expanded to include a "new class of monster storms ...