When we talk about hurricanes, the first number you usually hear is wind speed. That makes sense. Wind is what tears off roofs, knocks down trees, and turns debris into dangerous missiles. Wind kicks ...

When you hear terms like Category 1, Category 3 or even the rare Category 5 mentioned regarding hurricanes, what is being discussed is the classification system for hurricanes based on their winds.

Hurricane Melissa became a hurricane on Saturday, Oct. 25, surged up into a Category 4 hurricane by Sunday, and by Monday morning strengthened into the third Category 5 hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic ...

Hurricane Melissa set a new world record for the highest wind gust ever recorded at 252 mph. The storm made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane, killing at least 90 people. Melissa's path ...

When Melissa grew from a tropical storm into a powerful Category 5 hurricane, it became the fourth of this year’s five Atlantic hurricanes to undergo what hurricane experts call “rapid intensification ...

Do we need a better way to rate hurricanes, one that emphasizes the combination of wind speed, storm surge and rainfall, rather than wind alone? We seem to think so, and so do many other ...

“Dropsondes are small cylindrical devices that are used by organizations like NOAA to collect valuable information during extreme weather events like hurricanes or atmospheric rivers," an NSF NCAR ...

With a gust in Hurricane Melissa setting a record for peak gust measured by a specialized instrument dropped into the eye of a hurricane – 252 mph – you might be wondering what the fastest wind speeds ...

Human-caused climate change boosted the destructive winds and rain unleashed by Hurricane Melissa and increased the temperatures and humidity that fueled the storm, according to an analysis released ...

University of Florida researchers are assisting a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) investigation into the impacts of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. UF researchers used a wind ...