There are five categories of hurricanes that make up the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale. They are Category 1, Category 2, Category 3, Category 4 and Category 5. The most dangerous part of a hurricane ...

We are months away from the start of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season and now is the best time to start preparing.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Debby has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane overnight Sunday and is expected to bring historic heavy rainfall across the southeast. Hurricane Debby is expected ...

Languages: English. Parts of Texas and New Mexico are expecting wind gusts up to 75 mph on Thursday, the equivalent of a Category 1 hurricane. Meteorologists warned that driving will be difficult.

Floridians' ears might have perked up at the mention of 2018, which produced Hurricane Michael, a Category 5 hurricane that devastated the Florida Panhandle. Hurricane Michael caused an estimated ...

His prediction somewhat falls in line with what meteorological consulting firm WeatherBell predicted in early February. Both ...

The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through Nov. 30. Names for the 2025 season start with Andrea and will end with Wendy, unless we have to dip into the supplemental list. There are things ...

where the coast curves southward from the Panhandle — as a Category 1 hurricane. Debby crossed Florida and Georgia, then made a second landfall in South Carolina as a subtropical storm.

Later Wednesday, the storm gradually weakened to a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds around 90 mph, but heavy rain continued to pummel the state, and storm surge warnings remained ...

The storm made its way across the state as a Category 1 hurricane and forecasters warned in advance that disruption to power networks could potentially take weeks to fix. A displaced boat at ...

Simpson hurricane categories in less than a day, and scientists now propose a new factor that contributed to the storm's ...