You often hear meteorologists talk about categories of storms. Here's what different storms can do at different categories.

Hurricane Erick rapidly intensified over the last 24 hours, growing into a powerful Category 4 storm but weakening slightly before making landfall.

It was initially a Category 5 storm before weakening to a Category 4 just before landfall at Cayo Costa. Ian had maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. There were more than 140 deaths attributed to Ian.

Southern Mexico’s Pacific coast braced for a Thursday morning impact as Hurricane Erick spun toward shore as a powerful ...

Authorities in southern Mexico were still assessing damage and watching rising rivers as rain from the remnants of Hurricane ...

Hurricane Erick could become a major storm — a Category 3 hurricane or higher — before it reaches Mexico, the National ...

The traditional Saffir-Simpson scale categorizes hurricanes on a 1 to 5 rating system based on maximum sustained wind speed, with a Category 5 bearing winds of at least 157 mph.

These are some of the major hurricanes that have hit South Carolina over the years and what hurricane categories mean.

How are hurricanes rated? On a 1-5 scale, using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale; What is a major hurricane? A major hurricane is a Category 3, 4, or 5 storm with winds of at least 111 mph ...

Using NOAA data, Stacker summarized the last 100 hurricane seasons in the Atlantic Basin. See which years and storms broke ...

The National Hurricane Center uses the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale to categorize hurricanes. Hurricanes are assigned Category 1-5 depending on their wind speeds. We break down the ...