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 ...

"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 ...

The Central Pacific Hurricane Basin has seen a surprising uptick in storms in late July from both major Hurricane Iona and Tropical Storm Keli.