We need a new hurricane rating scale. What worked in 1971 won’t work in 2024. The Saffir-Simpson scale quantifies the impact of high winds on coastal communities. Category 1-5 storms are ranked based ...
It made landfall with winds reaching 140 miles per hour, making it a major storm and a Category 4 out of 5 on the ...
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.
Helene is the eighth Category 4 or 5 Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in the US in the last eight years. That’s as many of these intense hurricanes as hit the US in the prior 57 years.
Hurricane Helene has killed more than 100 people in six states across the US South — and most of the victims lived hundreds ...
Typhoon Krathon will cross through Taiwan’s densely populated west coast, including major port city of Kaohsiung ...
United States Bitcoin mining firm CleanSpark says it is still working to turn the power back on across all its facilities in ...
The East Coast is warily eyeing new weather developments at sea, as Tropical Depression Twelve is expected to become a ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced recently it awarded a contract to Georgia-based Lockheed Martin ...
Taiwan’s authorities shuttered some schools and canceled domestic flights as an intensifying Typhoon Krathon moves toward the island while bringing violent wind and rain to the Philippines.
An atmospheric scientist and weathercaster explains why his warnings about Hurricane Helene were not universally ...
On the evening of September 30th, the Vietnam Meteorological and Hydrological Administration issued an alert regarding the ...