A just-released final report from the National Hurricane Center included two staggering wind statistics from what was already ...

Hurricanes are measured on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which runs from Category 1 up to Category 5. According to The Weather Channel, the scale was developed in the 1970s by Miami ...

A final report on Melissa confirmed that it is tied for the Atlantic Basin's strongest hurricane. The just-released analysis ...

The World Meteorological Organization has retired the name Melissa from its Atlantic basin naming lists after the Category 5 ...

With less than three months until the start of a new hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center is wrapping up some of ...

Hurricanes, tropical cyclones and typhoons are all destructive windstorms, but how do they differ from one another? Learn more.

The storm's maximum sustained windspeeds reached 190 mph, a feat not achieved since Hurricane Allen struck in 1980.

All maps are from the National Hurricane Center. Get everything you need to know to start your day, delivered right to your inbox every morning. The post 3 maps showing Hurricane Melissa’s track, ...

The already dangerously powerful Category 5 hurricane Melissa surged up to 180 mph maximum sustained winds with gusts over 210 mph Tuesday morning, Oct. 28, according to an update from the National ...

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has concluded that Hurricane Melissa was stronger than initially recorded, tying it for the most intense hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic basin by wind speed ...

Hurricane Camille had the highest wind speed at landfall at an estimated 190 miles per hour when it struck the Mississippi coast as a category 5 storm in 1969. The actual wind speeds at landfall will ...

Houston's windiest season begins well before hurricane season. Here's why March is so windy, how strong gusts can get and ...