For more than a century, Florida’s Taylor County saw the fewest hurricane strikes of any place on the US Gulf Coast. In the ...

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Atmospheric rivers are often described as “rivers in the sky”; they’re narrow, flowing columns of condensed water vapor up in the atmosphere that can stretch over 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) long.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Massive Hurricane Helene crashed into Florida’s sparsely populated Big Bend region, bringing ...

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And in the case of Hurricane Helene, experts were predicting that the storm surge would be devastating in the coastal areas ...

Climate change is making hurricanes like Hurricane Helene more intense, scientific research shows. Helene has unleashed high ...

Another Hurricane Helene battered the Carolinas in September 1958. Like the 2024 hurricane, it would have been a Category 4 if today's wind scale was in use then.

This will cause the hurricane to upgrade to a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale with maximum sustained ...

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale was developed in 1971 and unveiled to the public in 1973. Here’s a look at the system ...

A hurricane's category describes potential wind damage but does not describe other deadly hurricane hazards such as storm surge.