Powerful Hurricane Milton strengthens to Category 5 status, with an astonishing pressure that has fallen to 897 mb or 26.49” ...

A record-strong low-pressure system will steer an atmospheric river into California, create blizzard conditions in Washington and bring strong, damaging winds. Up to 20 inches of rain expected in ...

Tropical Storm Sara is forecast to slog its way into Central America this weekend, but lose organization before its remnants make their way into the Gulf of Mexico and get sucked back to the east ...

In absolute terms, 2024 was by far the swingiest hurricane season on record since 1950, veering from quiet to calamitous.

Retired hurricane names:These will never ... is gradually developing over Central America with a 1007 mb low pressure embedded along the monsoon trough near central Panama. A broad area of ...

and extends up to about 40,000 feet altitude (a pressure of about 200 mb) in the tropics in summer. Hurricanes fill the entire vertical extent of the troposphere, and are steered by the average ...

Retired hurricane names:These will never ... trough over the Florida Straits has dissipated overnight, with high pressure of 1012 mb centered along the Mississippi coast dominating Gulf weather ...

When warm ocean air rises it starts to cool and clouds form creating an area of high pressure. Cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons are all the same kind of storm, one that spins and is fed by warm air.

The lower the pressure, the more powerful the storm. Even though bomb cyclones sometimes share characteristics with hurricanes, it is important to note that they are not hurricanes, and the two ...

What can you blame after a night of heavy precipitation and blustery winds battered New York and the east coast? Two words: bomb cyclone.

The term, which can be considered a "winter hurricane", defines the type of storm in which strong rains and powerful winds occur in a low-pressure area, rapidly developing over the course of 12 to ...