No, there isn’t a hurricane police force enforcing speed limits on these mighty storms, but there are factors that go into ...

Every single Atlantic hurricane in 2024 had wind speeds supercharged by warming seas. One even jumped two categories of intensity.

Devised by meteorologist Theodore Fujita in 1970, the F-scale enables experts to estimate a tornado's maximum wind speed in relation to the single most destructive thing it did. In this ...

It remains plausible that the combination of large-scale circulation and change in roughness has caused the change in wind speed." The finding helps explain an increase in the capacity factor of ...