Hurricanes are measured on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which runs from Category 1 up to Category 5. According to ...

With less than three months until the start of a new hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center is wrapping up some of its work on 2025 storms.

The World Meteorological Organization has retired the name Melissa from its Atlantic basin naming lists after the Category 5 ...

Hurricanes, tropical cyclones and typhoons are all destructive windstorms, but how do they differ from one another? Learn more.

The storm's maximum sustained windspeeds reached 190 mph, a feat not achieved since Hurricane Allen struck in 1980.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has concluded that Hurricane Melissa was stronger than initially recorded, tying it for ...

The already dangerously powerful Category 5 hurricane Melissa surged up to 180 mph maximum sustained winds with gusts over 210 mph Tuesday morning, Oct. 28, according to an update from the National ...

Houston's windiest season begins well before hurricane season. Here's why March is so windy, how strong gusts can get and ...

Hurricane Camille had the highest wind speed at landfall at an estimated 190 miles per hour when it struck the Mississippi coast as a category 5 storm in 1969. The actual wind speeds at landfall will ...