Researchers are pushing to replace the wind-only hurricane scale with a new system that also measures storm surge and ...

Tropical systems are categorized by wind speed, but experts say there's much more to the story when it comes to storm impacts.

All hurricanes are tropical storms. When a tropical storm has sustained surface winds of 74 mph or greater it gets classified as a hurricane. Wind speed will determine the category of the ...

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Differences between a Hurricane and a tropical storm Hurricanes and tropical storms are both tropical cyclones that are rotating systems of clouds that form over tropical or subtropical waters.

A hurricane doesn’t have to be a Category 5 to cause extreme damage Hurricane categories, ranked one through five, don't tell the whole story. Here's what really matters.

Hurricane Ian, which peaked as a Category 4 storm in the Gulf of Mexico, hammered Southwest Florida this week, flooding the coastal areas around Fort Myers, leaving millions of people without ...

Cyclones, typhoons, hurricanes: these extreme tropical storms often make headlines as they disrupt lives and leave devastation in their wake. But what is the difference between them, and what ...

By early Thursday, it had been upgraded to an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane with maximum wind speeds of 230 km/h.