A hurricane's "category" is only based on wind speed. But its size and speed are also important for considering its potential impacts.

Both hurricanes and tornadoes work in very different ways, which is why one is usually far more destructive than the other. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone, a rotating storm system that spins up ...

Wind turbines turn flowing air into electricity, but how much can be difficult to predict. A good starting point is to determine a wind turbine's efficiency by its rated wind speed. This refers to the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) I teach meteorology at Georgia Tech, in a part of the country that pays close ...