A tropical rainstorm will drench Florida through midweek before possibly strengthening over the Gulf and threatening ...

A tropical rainstorm is brewing and poses a significant flooding threat to parts of the Florida Peninsula, southern Alabama, ...

Following the disastrous outage from Hurricane Ida in 2021, Entergy New Orleans has invested in grid hardening, but is it ...

Storms like Chantal are categorized based on one danger marker. Lower category storms are still extremely dangerous due to ...

ATLANTA — Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, early Sunday morning. It is the third named ...

Tropical cyclones typically drop large amounts of rain along and near the storm's path. The slower and more significant the ...

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 ...

The fifth tropical cyclone of the 2025 eastern Pacific season "Erick" peaked as a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, before moving onshore southwest of Acapulco, Mexico ...

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

Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale: How hurricanes are rated Hurricanes are rated on a five-point scale – Category 1 to Category 5, referred to as the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

How much damage can a Category 1 hurricane do vs. a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson intensity scale? Plus examples of each that have hit Florida over the years.