Hurricanes are rated on this scale based on the following factors: wind speed, storm surge and damage potential. There are five categories of hurricanes that make up the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale.

Every hurricane in the Atlantic was made more intense, part of a growing trend for Earth’s most powerful storms, two new ...

No, there isn’t a hurricane police force enforcing speed limits on these mighty storms, but there are factors that go into ...

This year's Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Saturday, has been described by meteorologists as one of the busiest on ...

Warmer waters are fueling more storms with vastly increased wind speeds. Between 2019 and 2023, 40 hurricanes saw wind ...

Hurricanes are getting stronger, and humans are primarily to blame, according to a new study by Climate Central.

Seven hurricanes formed in the Atlantic basin after September 25, which was the most on record for that time period.

Atlantic this year. 11 of them were hurricanes, 5 were major hurricanes, and 3 of those hurricanes made landfall in Florida.

The Atlantic hurricane season officially ends on Saturday, Nov. 30. It was a season that left its mark in the record books in ...

Every single Atlantic hurricane in 2024 had wind speeds supercharged by warming seas. One even jumped two categories of intensity.

It’s been an unusual and historic year across the basin, which saw several scale-topping storms and one of the deadliest ...

The Atlantic spawned 11 hurricanes this season, above the annual average of seven. Also above average was the number of major ...