The hurricane scale classifies storms based on wind speeds and predicts potential impacts, which can help people prepare for ...

Hurricane Helene barreled into the western coast of Florida, packing dangerous winds and threatening to unleash deadly ...

Hurricane Helene, a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir Simpson Wind Scale, is just hours away from making a historic landfall ...

However, AccuWeather meteorologists forecast the hurricane to continue to rapidly intensify, gaining at least 35 mph in wind ...

Storm surge is a bigger killer than wind when a major hurricane hits shore. The areas in the path of Hurricane Helene are ...

Hurricane Helene in 1958 didn't touch Florida and never made landfall, but it would have been a Category 4 storm if it formed ...

Hurricane Helene was downgraded to a "strong" Category 2 hurricane on Friday, hours after it slammed into the southeastern US coast as a Category 4 storm, US forecasters said.

While wind can tear off roofs, knock down trees and snap power lines, storm surge can push buildings completely off their ...

It usually takes several days to even a week for a tropical storm to grow into a powerful hurricane. But if conditions are ...

The Saffir-Simpson scale is how those categories work. In short, it places hurricanes in five classifications. The weakest of these includes hurricanes with winds as slow as 74 mph. Meanwhile, a ...

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

The major impacts from Hurricane Helene will occur along and east of the storm’s track. Damaging hurricane-force winds are ...