Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tropical depression: Maximum sustained wind speed less than 63 km/h. Tropical storm: Maximum sustained wind speed more than 63 ...

The cyclone made its first landfall in Australia as a powerful Category 4 storm. Meanwhile, the Atlantic Hurricane season starts in June.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – As Hurricane Erin continues to move along the East Coast, there are many differences when it comes to tropical storms. There are many different types of storms that can ...

Subtropical storms in the Atlantic Basin can occur one or more times each hurricane season, and are a mix of two different, familiar storm types. To explain subtropical storms, we need to start by ...

Tropical Cyclone Narelle is currently a very dangerous Category 5 storm, sitting off the Far North Queensland Coast some 350 kilometres northeast of Cooktown. Formed in the Coral Sea, Narelle is ...

University of Birmingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Bangor University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. When a major cyclone tears through an ...

Powerful hurricanes have shaped coastal communities for centuries, leaving behind destruction that can alter entire regions.

A new tropical storm may be brewing in the Caribbean in the wake of Hurricane Milton's dramatic intensification earlier this month. The potential new storm is an area of low pressure off the coasts of ...

The biggest cyclone to hit a flood-ravaged region in more than a century is barrelling toward northern Australia, forcing ...

Tropical depression: Maximum sustained wind speed less than 63 km/h. Tropical storm: Maximum sustained wind speed more than 63 km/h, and it is given a name. Hurricane, typhoon, or tropical cyclone: ...