Tropical Storm Rafael strengthened to near hurricane intensity Tuesday night, as it barreled toward the Cayman Islands and ...

A major hurricane is a Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. It will likely continue to develop ..

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — (AP) — Tropical Storm Rafael strengthened to near hurricane intensity Tuesday night ... The storm also coincided with a large-scale blackout on the island.

Meteorologists' confidence on storm prediction is measured by "forecast uncertainty," according to the NOAA. Storms that are challenging to predict are characterized by "high uncertainty," but when ...

and the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, which ranks the intensity of the hurricanes wind speeds -- have gotten "immensely better" over the last 30 years, Paul Miller, an assistant professor of ...

4 intensity. (Further beef up your forecast ... rated by their maximum sustained winds using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. C ategory 5 hurricanes have maximum sustained winds of ...

Available Atlantic hurricane data doesn’t provide compelling evidence for a "substantial greenhouse warming-induced century-scale increase" in the frequency or intensity of hurricanes, ...

NOAA has not attempted to modify hurricane intensity and participate in cloud ... is not taking place at scale anywhere in the world. Geoengineering did not impact hurricanes Helene and Milton ...

Thunderstorm intensity can increase ... tornadoes that come with landfalling hurricanes or tropical storms are rated EF0 or EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, Bunting said. That would make them ...

Hurricane Laura in 2020 had a similar journey, where it began as a tropical storm just east of the Lesser Antilles and did not reach hurricane intensity ... by the large-scale steering flow ...