The National Hurricane Center now lists Hurricane Milton as one of the strongest hurricanes on record in the Atlantic Basin.

After an unusual eastward track across the Gulf of Mexico ... have been 895 mb at the time of peak intensity. This ties Hurricane Rita of 2005 for the fourth-lowest minimum central pressure ...

Nearly six months after Hurricane Milton devastated Tampa Bay, the storm is now officially considered one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record.

Hurricane names are rotated every six years, but new names are introduced when a few become so synonymous with destruction ...

Rita is survived by her daughter Jo-Anne, son Tom and daughter-in-law Patti, and her beloved granddaughter Corinne. Affectionately known to some as “Hurricane Rita”, she was never one to sit ...

When a storm is particularly powerful, destructive or deadly, the name is “retired” from the rotating list, meaning it will ...

That means most names used in the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season, for example, will be used again in 2030. But when a storm is particularly powerful, destructive or deadly, the name is “retired ...