These storms are the most intense that the Earth can produce. Melissa, Humberto and Erin were added to the list of rare ...

Hurricane Irma, fresh on the heels of Hurricane Harvey, strengthened early Tuesday into a Category 5 storm with maximum winds of 175 miles per hour, as Florida started to prepare for its potential ...

According to the NHC, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and ...

Now, after days of torrential rainfall and strong winds, seven reported fatalities, and with maximum sustained wind speeds ...

Hurricane Melissa is already a history-making storm, landing on all-time lists for strongest Atlantic Basin hurricanes and ...

The storm has grown stronger than Katrina, and is threatening to be the Atlantic's first Category 5 landfall since 2019.

The Category 5 storm made landfall in southwestern Jamaica near New Hope with estimated maximum sustained winds of 185 mph ...

In the last 25 years, a total of 10 major hurricanes have lashed the island. “Cuba is right in the center of things,” a ...

Hurricane Humberto has intensified into a Category 5 storm in the Atlantic, and a separate storm system is targeting the southeastern U.S.