Categories of tropical storms can save lives. From category 1 to hurricane category 5, here's what you need to know about the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale.

There has been one Category 5 to make landfall every 30 years or so – the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, Hurricane Camille in 1969, Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and Hurricane Michael in 2018.

Category 5 Hurricane Beryl early on the morning of July 2, 2024. Tropical storms in June typically form in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and the southwestern Atlantic.

As fearsome as Category 5 hurricanes can be for people living in harm's way, a new study reports global warming is supercharging some of the most intense cyclones with winds high enough to merit a ...

Only four Category 5 hurricanes have ever made landfall in the U.S. According to the National Hurricane Center, the very first recorded Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. was back ...

A Category 5 has sustained wind speed of 157 mph or more. Within the past decade, from 2013 through the 2023 hurricane season, 145 hurricanes have been recorded in the Atlantic Ocean -- most of ...

Cat 5 #2, Atlantic. The strongest tropical cyclone globally in 2017 was Hurricane Irma, which maintained its peak intensity of 180 mph winds for a remarkable 24 hours over the northeast Caribbean ...

Figure 5. Number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes in the Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific Ocean (off the east coast of Australia) since 1970. A a rather dramatic rise in recent years is apparent.