Hurricane categories are ranked on a scale of 1-5. A hurricane’s category is based on its wind speed. Each category is associated with damage that get progressively worse as the number increases.

The Atlantic hurricane season brings heavy rain, strong wind, storm surge and sometimes catastrophic damage to locations from ...

Hurricane Milton is predicted to hit Florida's Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm. Get to know the Saffir-Simpson wind scale and its hurricane levels ...

Hurricanes have been getting stronger thanks in part to warmer ocean waters linked to climate change, study authors Dr.

According to the National Hurricane Center’s 11 am Tuesday advisory, Category 4 Hurricane Milton is 130 miles northeast of ...

Hurricane Milton has been downgraded to Category 4 on its path to Florida with sustained winds of 155 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Tropical Storm Helena is heading north after slamming Florida as a Category 4 Hurricane. NBC News' Jesse Kirsch is on the ground in Florida reporting more on the deadly storm. Tampa Mayor Jane Castor ...

The Hurricane Center, which predicts the storm to reach Category 3 intensity ... Perry might see gusts to 90 mph or greater. A general 4 to 8 inches of rain is expected across central and north ...

A satellite map of the Gulf of Mexico reveals the “loop current,” a hairpin curve of hotter than usual water that could help grow future Hurricane ... was ahead of Category 4 Hurricanes ...

The National Hurricane Center is predicting the storm to reach Category 4 strength prior to landfall. This is an unusually large hurricane in size. The tropical storm force wind field extends out ...

Hurricane John made landfall in southern Mexico's Pacific coast as a Category 3 storm. Hurricane John hit the southern Pacific coast of Mexico late on Monday as a Category 3 storm, the US-based ...

Give them a call or send them a text message and let them know to get ready for a hurricane." Porter also warned the storm could strengthen into a major hurricane ― a Category 3 on the Saffir ...