Researchers are pushing to replace the wind-only hurricane scale with a new system that also measures storm surge and ...

A hurricane’s category is one of the most well-known metrics to describe how dangerous a storm is, but that single number only tells part of the story. Another key bit of information about a storm is ...

One example is 2005's Hurricane Katrina, which was listed as a Category 3 based on wind speeds. But storm surge and rainfall were responsible for most of the 1,800 deaths caused by Katrina and ...

Hurricane Erin strengthened into a fearsome Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 160 mph for much of the day on Aug. 16 as it traveled west just north of the Virgin Islands, according to the ...

Every hurricane comes from modest beginnings —often just a patch of the atmosphere over a particular spot in the ocean that meteorologists believe could have the makings of a storm. These areas are ...

Hurricane Erin has been talked about for the past several weeks as it moves along into the Atlantic. It became the first Hurricane of the Atlantic season and the first major hurricane intensifying ...

Hurricane Erin rapidly exploded from a Category 2 storm to a massive Category 5 at the start of the weekend before weakening gradually to Category 3 by early Sunday morning. The storm is on track to ...