Hurricane Milton, now barreling toward an expected landfall on Florida's west coast late Wednesday into early Thursday, has been rapidly upgraded and downgraded in the past few days as meteorologists ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – As of Tuesday morning, Hurricane Milton is a Category 4 storm, but it spent part of Monday as a Category 5 storm, the highest possible on the Saffir-Simpson strength scale.

The Atlantic’s first hurricane of the season had maximum sustained winds of 160 miles per hour, forecasters said.

First Helene, now Milton. Two major hurricanes battered or are set to batter parts of Florida in the last week and a half, which has many trying to understand the scale of the weather systems. The ...

Hurricanes have been wreaking havoc suddenly and ruthlessly. Helene made landfall on September 26 as a Category 4 storm, leaving a wide swath of destruction as it moved northward from Florida, washing ...

UPDATE: Hurricane Milton is again a Category 5 storm as it barrels toward the Florida coastline, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Tuesday afternoon. Milton had previously weakened to a Category ...

The hurricane scale classifies storms based on wind speeds and predicts potential impacts, which can help people prepare for the expected damage. By Aimee Ortiz When a hurricane threatens land, one of ...

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