There is nothing to look at right now, but the various computer forecast models all show some form of a disturbance ...
As billion-dollar disasters like hurricanes Helene and Milton grow more common, many blame global warming. Others say disasters are more expensive because there is more to destroy.
Here's how many Category 5 hurricanes have hit mainland U.S. While multiple hurricanes that made landfall in the U.S. peaked at Category 5, only four storms on record have done so at that ...
The projected wind speeds were akin to those delivered by Hurricane Andrew, which 32 years ago leveled much of southern Dade County, driving thousands northward to settle in Broward County.
Four days before landfall, Hurricane Andrew was an ill-defined, weak storm far out at sea. Emergency managers don’t want ...
It had a minimum pressure of 872 mb and sustained winds topping 215 mph. Hurricane Andrew, the storm of the century for many in South Florida, came in as a Category 5 with a minimum pressure of ...
Meteorologists' confidence on storm prediction is measured by "forecast uncertainty," according to the NOAA. Storms that are challenging to predict are characterized by "high uncertainty," but when ...
when it threatened to rank with such historic disasters as Hurricane Andrew or the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane. While the storm gained Category 5 strength over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says that 1992's Category 5 Hurricane Andrew was the strongest storm to ever slam into southern Florida. The worst damage was in ...
It also has a strong building code, which was put in place after Hurricane Andrew flattened more than sixty thousand homes in 1992. Both the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the ...
Another big storm’s brewing and it has its sights set on Georgia. Tropical Storm Helene became a named storm Tuesday, a little more than a year after Hurricane Idalia brought wide-ranging ...