A University of South Florida professor is among a team of researchers suggesting a change to how the risks associated with ...

As climate change continues to reshape the intensity and behavior of hurricanes, meteorologists and researchers are examining whether the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, a decades-old ...

Gabrielle, a Category 4 hurricane, was the weakest of the four major hurricanes this year. It passed a safe distance east of ...

Hurricanes are measured by their wind speed, which tells scientists how powerful they are. The Saffir-Simpson scale is used to rank them from Category 1 to Category 5. A Category 1 hurricane starts at ...

Melissa’s sustained winds reached 185 mph at landfall in Jamaica. Only a handful of Atlantic hurricanes have reached such ...

Hurricane Melissa raged as a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean last month—and now scientists have confirmed that its strongest gusts neared record speeds ...

With just over a week left of the 2025 hurricane season and no more tropical activity expected before then, hurricane experts are taking a look back on the season's record-breaking impacts.

Hurricane Melissa caused catastrophic damage in Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas, and Dominican Republic. It was a high-end Category 5 hurricane, and one of the strongest hurricanes to make landfall ...

Hurricane Melissa was a monster. The U.S. National Science Foundation confirmed Melissa's winds hit a record-breaking 252 mph ...

The National Hurricane Center does not expect any tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic over the next seven days. While the hurricane season is quiet, a strong cold front is expected to bring the ...