Tropical Storm Rafael is expected to strengthen and reach near "major hurricane strength" when it makes landfall in western ...

With extreme weather conditions, people directly impacted by the pending situation need to know how severe it will be.

Evacuation orders were issued for some 37,000 Cuban residents Tuesday as the storm strengthens in the Pacific.

and had maximum sustained winds of 100 mph, making it a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale. The storm was heading west-northwest at 9 mph. “A turn toward the west is expected later ...

A Category 1 hurricane has sustained wind speeds between 74 mph and 95 mph, according to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind ...

Hurricane Rafael made landfall in western Cuba Wednesday afternoon after it became a Category 3 hurricane earlier in the day.

Rafael has made landfall in the Cuban province of Artemisa just east of Playa Majana at 4:15 PM. Maximum sustained winds at ...

Typhoon Toraji, known locally as Nika, came ashore on the coast of northern Aurora province on Monday morning, with top sustained ... on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.

The season’s 17th named storm formed late Monday afternoon in the Caribbean and is expected to become a hurricane sometime ...

Kristy reached the top rung of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale as a very powerful Category ... last Saturday afternoon, packing sustained winds of 60 mph. After moving inland over Central ...

The Saffir-Simpson Scale rates hurricanes on winds. The new proposed scale being devloped by Jennifer Collins. professor in the School of Geosciences at the University of South Florida includes ...