Could Hurricane Milton become a Category 6? Why does the NHC's scale stop at 5?
Hurricane Milton is a Category 5. With more intense storms becoming more frequent, do we need something higher than Category 5 to describe them?
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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 ...
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 ...
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Hurricane Milton strengthens into a Category 4. Florida prepares for evacuations and storm surge
Milton rapidly strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane Monday on a path toward Florida population centers including Tampa ...
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A warm and cool start to the work week
Today through Tuesday night an upper ridge will progress with a light south west flow bringing warm temperatures and calm sunny weather.
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A tropical cyclone could develop in the Gulf soon
An area of low pressure located over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is broad and ill-defined Saturday. Development of this ...
National Hurricane Center tracking 3 systems in tropics. See what impacts Florida can expect
Chances for development of a system moving into the Gulf of Mexico have dropped, but heavy rain is likely across Central and ...
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.
Supercharged storms: how climate change amplifies cyclones
From Hurricane Helene to Typhoon Yagi, powerful storms are battering the globe, and scientists warn that a warming planet is ...
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It's U.S. Open week, and the kings are around
Thankfully the same high pressure that turned Hurricane Helene back to the west positioned itself along the East Coast and ...
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 Cape Verde Islands has a 80% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 ...
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Thousands evacuated as Super Typhoon Krathon approaches Taiwan
Taiwan closed schools and evacuated thousands of people in the south of the island Tuesday ahead of the arrival of Super ...