The problem with the hurricane category rating
The five-point category rating, known to experts as the Saffir-Simpson scale, is the main way the public understands a ...
Frontiers6d
Emerging signals of climate change from the equator to the poles: new insights into a warming world
The reality of human-induced climate change is unequivocal and exerts an ever-increasing global impact. Access to the latest ...
Tropical Storm Kirk forms. NHC tracking 5 systems in Atlantic. Florida needs to watch one closely
Tropical Storm Kirk formed in the Atlantic Monday. Another disturbances in the Atlantic. Gulf Coast residents should monitor ...
The Tribune-Democrat13h
Hurricane Milton is forecast to become a Category 5 and is taking aim at Florida
Milton rapidly strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday and was forecast to become a Category 5 storm on a path toward ...
CBS News5d
Hurricanes indirectly cause thousands of deaths for nearly 15 years after a storm, study finds
These cascades have serious consequences for public health." An average U.S. tropical cyclone indirectly causes 7,000 to 11,000 excess deaths, Hsiang and lead study author Rachel Young estimate.
AOL1d
Hurricane Kirk on path to impact Europe as massive post-tropical cyclone
A post-tropical storm system is a cyclone that has lost its tropical characteristics but still maintains significant organization to produce heavy rainfall and strong winds. Kirk began its trek in ...
The Tribune-Democrat9h
Hurricane Milton now Category 5; Florida orders evacuations and scrambles to clear Helene's debris
Monday into a Category 5 hurricane on a path toward Florida, threatening the densely populated Tampa area with a potential ...
Houston Chronicle2d
Gulf tropical storm forms, poses no Texas threat. But Florida faces another hurricane
the weakest kind of a tropical cyclone. Just before 1 p.m. Saturday, satellite wind data indicated that maximum sustained wind speeds were 40 mph, meaning the tropical cyclone had strengthened ...
NHC says 80% chance of cyclone over eastern tropical Atlantic
A broad area of low pressure formed in association with a tropical wave located a few hundred miles south-southwest of the ...
Storm tracker: National Hurricane Center tracking Tropical Storm Kirk, 4 other systems
Although forecasters with the National Hurricane Center are tracking five separate systems in the Atlantic Ocean, including ...
Lessons from Cyclone Gabrielle: Five key health priorities for future disaster response
"The climate crisis is a health crisis." So says World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus.
Houston Chronicle5d
Gulf looking less likely to see tropical storm. Is Texas in the clear? Here's what we know
If the counterclockwise rotation of the air flow in a low pressure system becomes strong enough, the system can organize the storms into a tropical cyclone. TRACK IT: Whenever the next named ...