A new study has revealed how decadal-scale climate fluctuations impact the ability of climate models to simulate tropical cyclone frequency in response to El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events.

The fact that the ocean gets colder as you go deeper is fairly intuitive, but a similar gradient exists along the surface of the ocean, even at scales of 1 kilometer to tens of kilometers. A new study ...

BOSTON—Catastrophe risk management services provider Karen Clark & Co. has introduced a new tool to assess likely insured damage from tropical cyclones. The KC Wind Damage Scale is designed to give ...

Every year, news anchors around the world switch effortlessly between three different words to describe what is technically the same weather phenomenon. One season it's a hurricane barreling toward ...

If you live in the United States, you’re used to hearing these terms: tropical depression, tropical storm, and hurricanes. But if you’ve ever heard your local meteorologist say the words ‘tropical ...

Tropical Cyclone Narelle is forecast to become a powerful category 5 system – the highest tier on the Australian cyclone scale – before making landfall over northern Queensland later this week.

Should you worry about one more than the others? Here’s what you need to know about a typhoon vs. hurricane vs. cyclone. When a strong storm is predicted for your area, you need to be prepared. That ...