A combination of weather factors and geography helped make it one of the most brutal storms in the modern history of ...

Scientists point to Hurricane Helene as an example of how human-caused climate change is behind extreme weather events and of ...

Hurricane forecasts have some caveats that might not appear on a graphic, including the meaning of a storm's winds, landfall ...

There is also a danger to those in its path: The Fujiwhara effect has major implications for forecasting, and could alter a storm's track unpredictably, making it harder to warn communities in its ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, a Salvation Army captain reflects on his dangerous rescue mission and how tragedy led ...

It may have been forgotten by some, but this hurricane is still the second-deadliest on record to hit the mainland U.S. However, most of its deaths weren't along the Atlantic coast. Here's what ...

When Hurricane Erin explosively intensified in the Atlantic, the alarming part wasn’t solely how dangerous it had become as a ...

Here is what the scale means: The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale was first developed in the early 1970s by Herbert Saffir, a consulting engineer who lived in Florida, and Dr. Robert Simpson, who ...

Another silver lining: not only is the Pigeon River at normal levels, but there are signs of life, birds all around. The group, Clean Water Expected in East Tennessee, said water is clearer than it ...

The most recent example of the Fujiwhara effect was in 2023, when Tropical Storm Philippe absorbed the nearby Tropical Storm Rina. According to the hurricane center’s storm report, there were no ...

A University of South Florida researcher and a team from the Netherlands are proposing a new way to measure hurricane ...

How meteorologists remember the unprecedented warning, which predicted “human suffering incredible by modern standards.” It’s been two decades since Hurricane Katrina brought catastrophe to the Gulf ...