Florida is bracing for “unsurvivable” storm surge from Hurricane Helene, a Category 4 storm. In the afternoon, Helene was ...

When a hurricane threatens the United States, a lot of attention is focused on the path and the wind speed. Storm surge can ...

While wind can tear off roofs, knock down trees and snap power lines, storm surge can push buildings completely off their ...

Hurricane Helene, a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir Simpson Wind Scale, is just hours away from making a historic landfall ...

Most hurricanes take weeks to develop, but some hit the increasingly warm ocean waters and rapidly develop into monsters ...

Helene is expected to make landfall on Florida's Big Bend this evening as a major category 4 hurricane, bringing the risk of ...

Storm surge is a bigger killer than wind when a major hurricane hits shore. The areas in the path of Hurricane Helene are ...

The hurricane scale classifies storms based on wind speeds and predicts potential impacts, which can help people prepare for ...

The StormMax gust is a Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which can cause trees to uproot, rooftops to be ...

A hurricane's category describes potential wind damage but does not describe other deadly hurricane hazards such as storm ...

It was developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Robert Simpson and introduced to the public in 1973, according to the NWS. According to NOAA, the scale does not take into ...

10/11 Meteorologists Carmelo Lattuca and Bill Rentschler dive into hail and how it forms in 10/11's Weather Academy. 10/11's Bill Rentschler and Carmelo Lattuca go over what CAPE, CIN, and the cap ...