It’s a number attached to every hurricane, crucial to emergency response teams and city officials to mobilize preparedness: the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, characterized by five categories.

Tropical Storm Helene formed Tuesday morning in the Caribbean, and the National Hurricane Center forecasts it to move north and strike Florida as a major Category 3 hurricane on Thursday night.

Forecasters are calling for the last two weeks of September — typically one of the busiest phases of any given hurricane season — to reach normal levels of activity. In their two-week outlook ...

Expect an above-average hurricane season, forecasters say. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hurricane season in the Atlantic ...

Farther out at sea, Gordon strengthened a bit this morning as a tropical depression but could drop down to post-tropical remnant at any time, according to the National Hurricane Center's latest ...

Hurricane forecasters are watching a new potential storm as the Atlantic hurricane season motors past its halfway point. So far, the season hasn't logged an exceptional number of storms, despite ...

In tropical storms, location matters when it comes to what damage to expect – especially if you're on the "dirty" side of a hurricane, where winds can be up to 50% stronger. Hurricanes can be ...

Atlantic hurricane activity is usually nearing its peak at this time of year, and it seemed as if this August would be no exception. Tropical waters are extraordinarily warm, and two hurricanes ...

Hurricane Francine has strengthened into an "extremely dangerous" Category 2 as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) begins tracking a new tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean. Francine became ...

The National Hurricane Center is keeping an eye on a large area of low pressure across the northwestern Caribbean Sea and the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico that has the potential to develop into a ...