A study of ancient Earth suggests future hurricanes may bring catastrophic rainfall even when wind speeds appear weaker.
Hurricane Melissa's peak wind speeds reached 165 mph on Monday morning. Melissa is expected to make landfall as a deadly Category 5 hurricane in Jamaica early Tuesday morning. Melissa became a ...
The upcoming 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is bringing a higher risk of tropical storms to the central and eastern Gulf ...
Hurricane Melissa was a strong Category 4 on Oct. 26, as it lingered near Jamaica. It has since become a Category 5 storm. Update, Oct. 27: This article was originally published Oct. 26. It has been ...
The Saffir-Simpson scale ranks hurricanes on their wind speeds, on a scale from 1 to 5. But critics say the scale doesn't ...
Wind alone does not account for all hurricane-related fatalities. Storm surge and rainfall do as well. Yet the current warning system—the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale—measures a storm's ...
The incredible 252 mph peak wind gust measured in Hurricane Melissa as it approached Jamaica was verified this week. That wind gust is now officially the highest wind speed ever recorded by the ...
NOAA's early outlook for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season suggests below-average storm activity, attributed to potential El ...