Hurricane Milton surged Monday into a monster Category 5 storm with 180 mph winds in the Gulf of Mexico, and is forecast to remain a dangerous major hurricane ahead of landfall on Florida’s Gulf ...

After first hitting Florida's Big Bend region on Sept. 26 with 140 mph winds, torrential rain and a far-reaching storm surge, Helene moved inland, inundating parts of Georgia, South Carolina ...

Before what would become Hurricane Helene could even shoot the Yucatan Channel, meteorologists knew that what was unfolding would be one of the most far-reaching storm surge events on Florida’s ...

Hurricane Helene’s storm surge struck Florida fast and hard when it slammed into Gulf Coast communities near St. Petersburg INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Fla. -- Aiden Bowles was stubborn, so even as ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Hurricane Helene has caused a record number of fatalities and massive amounts of damage, from the wind but mainly from the storm surge and inland flooding. Storm surge occurs ...

That's storm surge. It's more deadly and destructive than wind and can make a significant impact far from the center of a storm. The most common way to measure a hurricane's strength is the Saffir ...

FEMA prepares to respond to dangerous storm surge, flash flooding in Hurricane Helene's aftermathThe most common way to measure a hurricane's strength is the Saffir-Simpson Scale, which assigns a ...

Bolivar Island faced major destruction from Hurricane Ike's storm surge in 2008 When a hurricane threatens the United States, a lot of attention is focused on the path and the wind speed.

In any tropical storm or hurricane, the biggest danger is not the wind. It's the water. Storm surge, the massive amount of relentless water that comes ashore during a hurricane and up into rivers ...