The Hurricane

The cover photo for today is last year's Hurricane Patricia in the eastern Pacific--a MEGA-STORM reaching 215 mph winds before weakening and still slamming ...

Scientists argue that adding a Category 6 to the hurricane scale will be needed as the climate changes.

The U.S. Army Corps has begun designing a resilience plan across the island where nearly all its homes face a severe risk of flooding from hurricanes.

The proportion of major hurricanes among all storms is increasing and it's because of warmer oceans, said University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy ...

Hurricanes are rated on a scale from one to five, depending on their wind speeds. The higher the speed, the higher the category. But as climate change makes ...

A recent study by scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory presents compelling evidence that the current Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, ...

On Monday, a pair of scientists published a research article exploring the "growing inadequacy" of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale and possibly adding a ...

As temperatures rise and the world's oceans store more potential fuel for storms, a new study proposes adapting the scale that measures the intensity of ...

Hurricane experts are debating adding a Category 6 on the current scale to highlight the increasing possibility of stronger storms as ocean waters continue ...

WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $3,587,808 in a Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. — This year marks the 20th anniversary since Hurricane Charley wreaked havoc on parts of the Sunshine State. During the hurricane season of ...

The possibility of more powerful tropical storms due to climate change has led to the proposal of a sixth category of major hurricanes, according to a study ...

A new report studied 197 Category 5 tropical cyclones between 1980 and 2021 and it identified five storms that hypothetically could be classified as ...

Studies have shown that the strongest tropical storms are getting more intense because of climate change. So the traditional five-category Saffir-Simpson scale, ...

Due to global warming potentially leading to more intense hurricanes, a group of scientists believe that adding Category 6 hurricanes would be helpful.

WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $3,587,808 in a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant for Louisiana disaster aid. “Louisiana's waterways are some of the most iconic ...

The National Hurricane Center plans on adding a bit more certainty to its "cone of uncertainty."

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A new hurricane track forecast cone will be used this hurricane season. The purpose is to help people understand that impacts happen ...

In a 2C global warming scenario, the risk of Category 6 storms would double in the Gulf of Mexico and increase by 50% near the Philippines.

This satellite image shows Tropical Storm Harold making landfall on Padre Island just before 10 a.m. Aug. 22, 2023. Although predictions for last year's ...

Two decades ago, the photographer David LaChapelle staged apocalyptic scenes for the pages of “Vogue Italia” — images that proved so controversial that they ...

The Swift Current Flood Mitigation Assistance Program is a residential mitigation grant program funded by FEMA and administered through a partnership with ...

A nonprofit agency set ...

My Florida Marketplace Registration and Substitute W9 Process. Vendor Registration. The State of Florida utilizes an electronic procurement system known as ...

My Florida Marketplace Registration and Substitute W9 Process · Vendor Registration. The State of Florida utilizes an electronic procurement system known as MyFloridaMarketPlace (MFMP). · Step 1: MyFloridaMarketPlace Registration · MFMP Vendor Guide · Step 2: ...

— The Saffir-Simpson scale, used by the National Weather Service, ranges from Category 1 to 5. Under this scale, a Category 5 hurricane is a storm with wind ...

Our team of experts discusses the idea of adding a Category 6 to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com.

The extension of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale — the system used by the National Hurricane Center to rank the strength of hurricanes — to a sixth ...

The National Hurricane Center will implement a new experimental cone graphic to display critical watches and warnings for inland counties during hurricane ...

The NHC announced Tuesday that meteorologists with the agency will start using an experimental cone on or around Aug. 15 that will inland tropical storm and ...

My Florida Marketplace Registration and Substitute W9 Process. Vendor Registration. The State of Florida utilizes an electronic procurement system known as ...

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) will be implementing a new experimental cone graphic to display critical watches and warnings for inland counties during ...

Residents of ...

There are less than 120 days before the arrival of the 2024 hurricane season, but for Mother Nature, the processes that lead to tropical weather season ...

The other factor in hurricane development and sustainment is ocean temperatures. Right now, in early February sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic ...