Hurricanes are some of the most powerful forces on Earth, ranked from Category 1 to Category 5 based on wind speeds and ...

The first full week of February is Florida’s Severe Weather Awareness Week. Every day this week the CBS 12 StormTrac Team ...

Updated 2024 crop and rangeland damage estimates highlight the devastating impact of natural disasters on U.S. farm ...

A non-profit company aims to measure the impact of cyber events on the economy using a 1-to-5 scale borrowed from hurricane ...

The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the alien world spins.

Residents in Western Australia are bracing for Tropical Cyclone Zelia's impacts after the storm rapidly strengthened into a destructive Category 5 storm ahead of its expected landfall on the Pilbara ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency says its National Flood Insurance Program was forced to borrow $2 billion to help pay ...

Among the idyllic landscapes of Mount Ulla, North Carolina, there is a sadness wafting through the community where two mules ...

Hurricanes are rated from Category 1 to Category 5. The winds increase with each category. The sustained wind speeds for each category are: A major hurricane is category 3 strength or higher and ...

“At 100-mph winds, we're talking nearly 100% chance of damage.” Twelve out of the 14 hurricanes that have impacted Florida over the last 20 years reached Category 2 or greater, meaning that ...