A hurricane with maximum sustained winds of at least 157 mph is considered to be a Category 5 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson ...

Minimal tropical storm to category 5 hurricane in less than 48 hours. 60 kt of intensification in 12 hours alongside a 63-mb ...

While multiple hurricanes that made landfall in the U.S. peaked at Category 5, only four storms on record have done so at that intensity.

Hurricane Milton went from barely hurricane strength to a dangerous Category 5 storm in less than 24 hours as it headed ...

Hurricane Otis struck very near Acapulco, Mexico, as a monster 165 mile-per-hour category 5 cyclone. About 24-hours before landfall, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) was predicting it would do so ...

With Hurricane Milton strengthening on its path towards Florida, here's how storms are classified from a tropical depression to a Category 5.

Milton was tracking across the Gulf of Mexico bound for what could be a devastating crash along Florida's already ...

That's a leap of about two categories on the Saffir-Simpson scale, which measures hurricane strength and potential damage ... Category 5 hurricane in just 24 hours. With maximum sustained winds of 205 ...

The North Carolina State Climate Office estimates that Hurricane Matthew is the fifth-deadliest and fourth-costliest North Carolina tropical cyclone on record.

It appears as though FEMA's immediate response to Helene – at least in dollar terms – pales in comparison to that of other ...

Milton is expected to be a powerful hurricane when it approaches Florida’s Gulf Coast. Depending on the exact landfall ...

Florida's Gulf Coast has already been devastated by two hurricanes this season and it seems all but certain a Milton is coming.