Power outages will last weeks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months. Category 5 ...

Get ready — there are fewer than 50 days before the start of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. Last year's season's activity was above the historical average, with Florida taking some big hits ...

Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months. Category 5 hurricane: Wind speed and damage expected Wind speed: 157 mph or higher. Considered a major hurricane. Impact: Catastrophic ...

He also showed a chart indicating that climate change resulted in increased wind speed ... 1 hurricane, Hurricane Helene developing to Category 3, and Hurricane Milton to Category 5.

Experts also warn that storms could rapidly intensify shortly before making landfall, similar to the deadly Category 5 Hurricane ... to major hurricane with huge increases in wind speed, gaining ...

Hurricane Beryl, the second named storm and first to become a major hurricane, was the earliest Atlantic basin Category 5 hurricane on record ... with a 90-mph wind speed increase in 24 hours. When it ...

which is when a storm’s wind speed increases considerably in a short period, a hurricane could be a Category 1 at one moment and explode into a Category 5 monster just 24 hours later.

That additional wind speed resulted in 30 hurricanes reaching an entire category higher in strength (Category 3 to Category 4 or Category 4 to Category 5, for example) compared to a world without ...