Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds and drenching rains devastated Jamaica. But is its wrath a sign that we need a new designation for monster storms?

At the moment, Hurricane Milton has been downgraded from a Category 5 to Category 4 storm Goes-East/Noaa/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock Do all the shifts in Hurricane Milton’s classification mean it can potentially become a Category 6 storm?

Hurricane Milton intensified to a powerful Category 5 hurricane on Monday, having rapidly strengthened from a Category 2 in only a few hours—but could it reach Category 6? Wind speeds reached up to 180 mph on Monday, and although the hurricane had ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – As of Tuesday morning, Hurricane Milton is a Category 4 storm, but it spent part of Monday as a Category 5 storm, the highest possible on the Saffir-Simpson strength scale. Research published earlier this year, however, suggests ...

Milton’s race from a Category 2 to a Category 5 hurricane in just a few hours has left people wondering if the powerhouse storm could possibly become a Category 6. The hurricane grew very strong very fast Monday after forming in the Gulf of Mexico ...

A super-hurricane is brewing in the Atlantic Ocean in the opening pages of The Displacements, a novel by Bruce Holsinger published in 2022. “This is the one the climatologists have been warning us about for 20 years,” one character declares. Forty ...

Above: This rainbow appears unusually low in the sky because it has formed early in the afternoon, rather than toward sunset. For a rainbow to form, water droplets must be present in the air in front of an observer and the sun must be shining from behind ...

There are five levels on what is called the Saffir-Simpson scale. But with storms getting stronger, should another category be added to it?