What Does a Hurricane’s Category Tell Us?
The hurricane scale classifies storms based on wind speeds and predicts potential impacts, which can help people prepare for the expected damage.
Tropical Storm Francine: What is the highest category hurricane?
Tropical Storm Francine is expected to strengthen into a hurricane before making landfall in Louisiana. The storm is expected to reach sustained winds of 100 miles per hour, making it a Category 1 hurricane.
Is a Category 3 hurricane a major storm? What to know as Hurricane Helene strengthens
Ahead of Hurricane Helene's landfall, forecasters are predicting it will hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane. Here's what that means
Hurricane safety: What are hurricane categories and what do they mean?
A hurricane is a rotating low-pressure weather system that converts the energy of warm air into winds and waves. Hurricanes have “warm core” centers, meaning the center of the storm is warmer than the surrounding air. Warm ocean temperatures and wind patterns that spiral air inward are necessary for a hurricane to form.
What is a tropical storm? What is a hurricane? And what is heading towards Knoxville?
All this talk about Hurricane Helene can be confusing. What is the difference between a tropical storm and a hurricane? Here's what to know.
How strong is Hurricane Helene? What the wind category means.
The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is a 1 to 5 rating based on a hurricane's maximum sustained wind speed. This scale does not take into account other potentially deadly hurricane hazards such as storm surge, flooding and tornadoes. Len Melisurgo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
'Uninhabitable for weeks or months': Why Helene's hurricane category matters
Is a Category 3 hurricane a major storm? What to know as Tropical Storm Helene strengthens
Ahead of Tropical Storm Helene's landfall, forecasters are predicting it will hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane. Here's what that means
What to expect from each category of a hurricane
FOX40 Cheif Meteorlogist Adam Epstein explains what what to expect from each strength category of a hurricane.
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale: What to expect from each storm category
NOAA forecasters are predicting an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season in 2024, saying there's an 85% chance it will be more active than usual.
More deadly than wind, storm surge from Hurricane Helene could be devastating
And in the case of Hurricane Helene, predicted storm surge could be devastating in the coastal areas of the state's Big Bend, ...
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100 mph wind gusts? Francine could get that strong, hurricane forecasters say.
This would make it a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale of Hurricane Intensity. Thanks in part to unusually warm seawater in the Gulf of Mexico, Francine could even undergo ...
Breaking down hurricane categories by wind speed as Helene moves toward Florida coast
A category 1 hurricane is defined by wind speeds ranging from 74 to 95 mph. NHC said a category 1 storm could cause damage to rooves, shingles, vinyl sidings and gutters, as well as snap large tree ...
Hurricane Helene Is Unusual — but It's Not an Example of the Fujiwhara Effect
Hurricane Helene is expected to make landfall on Florida’s northwestern coast and then continue on to torment parts of ...
Hurricane Helene: See when it will reach the Upstate. 'It's going to be howling'
However, AccuWeather meteorologists forecast the hurricane to continue to rapidly intensify, gaining at least 35 mph in wind ...
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Tracking Hurricane Helene: Computer models and maps
WPBF 25 First Warning meteorologists are tracking Hurricane Helene, which is now a category 2 storm. Helene is expected to ...
US Airlines Cancel Over 1,000 Flights Due to Hurricane Helene
Airlines in the United States have canceled or delayed thousands of flights on Thursday, as a strengthening hurricane Helene ...