A storm reaches hurricane status on the Saffir-Simpson scale once maximum sustained winds reach 74 mph. But as Banks noted, the storm system churning over the Atlantic still has to overcome wind ...

Hurricane Milton, a Category 5 storm at the ... on what is known as the Saffir-Simpson scale. (Typhoons and Indian Ocean cyclones use different scales.) Category 1 hurricanes have wind speeds ...

As Hurricane Milton slammed Florida's west coast, dozens of misleading or AI-generated videos spread on social media, racking up millions of views across platforms. One video, falsely said to show ...

The National Hurricane Center continued tracking two ... not appear to be a threat to the U.S., forecasters said, as large-scale weather patterns are predicted to push the system away from the ...

“Normal” for the second half of October is typically less active than late August through early October, the traditional peak of hurricane season. The sun’s angle is lower, prompting subtle ...

VERO BEACH, Fla. −A relative meteorological calm that has settled over the southeastern U.S. after months of brutal storms does not mean the 2024 hurricane season plans to go out quietly ...

A new tropical storm may be brewing in the Caribbean in the wake of Hurricane Milton's dramatic intensification earlier this month. The potential new storm is an area of low pressure off the ...

Losses from Hurricane Milton could reach as high as $34 billion, according to an early estimate of both flood and wind damage from research firm CoreLogic, with between $4 billion to $6 billion of ...

As another potential tropical storm brews in the Atlantic, hurricane experts have weighed ... "The path of storms is mostly controlled by the large-scale steering flow in the North Atlantic ...

The National Hurricane Center continued Friday to keep track of two systems with a chance to form into the season’s next tropical depression or storm, with one prompting it to issue advisories ...

A rescue mission after Hurricane Helene brought four small puppies out of harm’s way. Volunteers with the nonprofit Paws of War arrived to assist at some of the harder-hit sites in North ...

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