Hurricane Irma, fresh on the heels of Hurricane Harvey, strengthened early Tuesday into a Category 5 storm with maximum winds of 175 miles per hour, as Florida started to prepare for its potential ...
These storms are the most intense that the Earth can produce. Melissa, Humberto and Erin were added to the list of rare ...
Hurricane Melissa is already a history-making storm, landing on all-time lists for strongest Atlantic Basin hurricanes and ...
According to the NHC, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and ...
Names are retired if they are so deadly or costly that the future use of the name would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity, NOAA said.
Hurricane Melissa's maximum sustained winds are 175 mph (282km/h) – category five – with stronger gusts as of 2 pm ET, ...