As Hurricane Milton churns towards Florida threatening destructive damage, the storm's constantly changing wind speeds have ...

As the storm rapidly approaches the west coast of Florida, hurricane watchers want to brush up on the meaning behind the category measurement. Since Milton has quickly intensified over the past ...

The wind speeds of the hurricanes were cranked up by an average of 18 mph, which caused 30 of them to go up at least one category higher on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale. The studies ...

Seven hurricanes formed in the Atlantic basin after September 25, which was the most on record for that time period.

This is illustrated by the chart below, where a dot represents ... and earlier ones are very rare. While a category five hurricane is unheard of this early in the season, its strength fits into ...