Preparations and evacuations are under way on Florida’s west coast, where Category 5 Hurricane Milton with sustained wind speeds of 258km/h (160mph) is expected to make landfall over the next 24 ...

Volusia County has been hit by many deadly hurricanes over the years, but never a hit from a Category 5 monster. What would that look like?

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Noting that the Jamaica Public Service Company’s (JPS) grid is designed to withstand Category 3 ...

As the global temperature rises beyond 1.5C in 2024, Darren Bett looks at some of the most severe weather events of last year ...

A major hurricane is a Category 3 or higher based on the Saffir-Simpson Scale of Hurricane Intensity and, according to previous USA TODAY reporting, only four Category 5 hurricanes have made landfall ...

A report by the Florida auditor general's office found numerous issues with the city of Mexico Beach in northwest Florida.

It leaped from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just 24 hours. Across all the tropical systems that the Times analyzed, the average ocean temperature was approximately 2 degrees ...

In 2024, two hurricanes reached Category 5 status — storms that would not have intensified to such levels without the warming influence of climate change. "We’re seeing more violent hurricanes ...

Residents of Florida's central west coast made final preparations for Hurricane Milton, which roared back to a Category 5 storm Tuesday and is forecast to make landfall near Sarasota late ...