With hurricane season in full swing, there's a lot of talk from meteorologists about hurricane "categories." What do they mean, and what do they tell us about a storm? It turns out, a hurricane's ...

The Saffir-Simpson scale ranks hurricanes on their wind speeds, on a scale from 1 to 5. But critics say the scale doesn't represent the true danger.

We may be months away from the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, but tropical cyclones are spinning somewhere on the planet. Indeed, on the other side of the world, "Tropical Cyclone Horacio ...

The most punishing of hurricanes bring deaths and catastrophic destruction, lifting roofs off homes, toppling trees, snapping power lines and causing billions in damage. Category 5 storms are the most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's now official: The hurricane that acted like a tornado will be the last time we'll hear the name Melissa. A NOAA satellite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For quite a while this season, I thought I was going to be gleefully writing about a boring hurricane season where fish storm ...