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.

Hurricane Milton has its sights set on Florida's Gulf Coast and that includes the Tampa Bay area. The storm rapidly ...

This year, the 2024 season was expected to be extremely active, and it supplied the earliest Category 5 Atlantic hurricane on record. Hurricanes often start as tropical waves that combine with ...

We all felt it, and now we know for sure that Beryl was stronger than we thought. Here's what the latest report from the ...

Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean begins on June 1st and in the Pacific Ocean on May 15th. Both end on November 30th, but tropical systems can form any time of the year. Stay up-to-date on ...

The National Hurricane Center released its final report on Hurricane Beryl and discovered winds just 3 miles per hour shy of ...

The National Weather Service has issued a high-wind warning for parts of the Lone Star State as gusts up to 70 mph are ...

Please click here for the latest updates. Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida on Wednesday afternoon as a powerful Category 4 storm. Maximum sustained winds were around 150 mph as it hit the ...

Egg prices are (still) up. Here are 5 easy substitutes. Florida's storm-battered Gulf Coast raced against a Category 5 hurricane Monday as workers sprinted to pick up debris left over from Helene ...

Streetleaf’s solar streetlights can withstand Category 5 hurricanes, and it aims to deploy them across Florida to boost storm resilience.