In preparation for the 2025 hurricane season, Colorado State University projects 17 named storms, nine hurricanes and four major hurricanes. In 2025, it is ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an above-average Atlantic hurricane season from June 1 ...

Tropical systems are categorized by wind speed, but experts say there's much more to the story when it comes to storm impacts ...

Rapid intensification of storms occurs when sea surface temperatures are at or above record-breaking highs, as was the case ...

Tropical systems tracked by the National Hurricane Center will be classified as depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes ...

The scale has been in use for decades and gives an idea about what kind of wind damage a hurricane can produce, but it says ...

The butterfly effect suggests that small changes in a system can have a large impact on eventual outcomes. One metaphor used ...

The Saffir-Simpson (SS) hurricane wind scale, introduced in the early ... As global warming continues unabated, can we expect tropical cyclones with an intensity of more than category 5?

Tropical systems tracked by the National ... At that point, the NHC uses the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale of intensity to categorize it on a scale of 1-5. Category 1: Sustained winds between ...

However, century-scale records of landfalling hurricanes ... proportion of intense storms are of concern. "The intensity of tropical cyclones has increased globally in recent decades, with the ...

Existing model projections do not show dramatic large-scale changes in these features ... for a globally averaged increase in tropical cyclone intensity and rainfall. Finally, dynamical and ...