Scientists have known climate change is increasing the severity of hurricanes for years now, but new research suggests it’s ...

Erin is the fifth named storm to develop during the Atlantic hurricane season, which started just over two months ago. Last ...

The longstanding hurricane rating system, the Saffir-Simpson Scale, only takes into account sustained wind speeds and not the ...

Hurricane Erin rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 storm. It is not expected to make a direct hit on the U.S. but will ...

Hurricane - The term for tropical cyclones in either the Atlantic or Eastern Pacific basins which have maximum sustained ...

The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) puts the threshold for rapid intensification when a storm’s maximum winds jump about ...

"The proportion of intense tropical cyclones (categories 4-5) is expected to increase at the global scale with increasing global warming," the WMO said in 2022, a message reiterated many times since.