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 ...

But not only was it active, it was impactful. Of the 11 hurricanes, eight of them made landfall - five of those in the continental U.S. The season was also historic in many ways. There were two ...

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 ...