With this year’s hurricane season under way, Al Jazeera visualises the differences between various storm systems.

Erin is the fifth named storm to develop during the Atlantic hurricane season, which started just over two months ago. Last ...

The longstanding hurricane rating system, the Saffir-Simpson Scale, only takes into account sustained wind speeds and not the ...

Scientists have known climate change is increasing the severity of hurricanes for years now, but new research suggests it’s ...

Tropical cyclones can occur concurrently in the same basins in clusters, potentially resulting in greater damage. A recent ...

The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) puts the threshold for rapid intensification when a storm’s maximum winds jump about ...

Hurricane Erin rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 storm. It is not expected to make a direct hit on the U.S. but will ...

"The proportion of intense tropical cyclones (categories 4-5) is expected to increase at the global scale with increasing global warming," the WMO said in 2022, a message reiterated many times since.

Extreme rainfall in New Zealand from future cyclones could rise by up to 35%. New high-resolution modeling predicts that ...

Hurricane Erin underwent rapid intensification and quickly strengthened into an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane at ...