Preparations and evacuations are under way on Florida’s west coast, where Category 5 Hurricane Milton with sustained wind speeds of 258km/h (160mph) is expected to make landfall over the next 24 ...
Hurricanes are powerful storms which develop over tropical waters. They involve sustained winds near the surface of at least 74mph. In a category 5 hurricane, the most severe on the Saffir-Simpson ...
Of the 11 hurricanes, eight of them made landfall - five of those in the continental U.S. The season was also historic in many ways. There were two Category 5 storms, Beryl and Milton. Since 1950 ...
The season got off to a strong start with Hurricane Beryl, which broke records as the earliest category 5 storm to develop in the Atlantic. Hurricane Beryl battered the Lesser Antilles and ...