South Florida prepares for heavy rainfall, flooding in wake of Tropical Storm Milton South Florida prepares for heavy rainfall, flooding in wake of Tropical Storm Milton 04:09 Hurricane Milton rapidly intensified into a Category 1 storm on Sunday, and it has set its path on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Forecasters predict Milton will make landfall around … Read more
(NewsNation) — Several parts of Florida are under alert as the state braces for Tropical Storm Helene to strengthen into a major hurricane before making landfall in the U.S. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has declared a state of emergency in 41 counties. On Tuesday morning, the storm was sitting in the Caribbean Sea near … Read more
Hurricane Beryl strengthened to Category 5 status late Monday after it ripped doors, windows and roofs off homes across the southeastern Caribbean with devastating winds and storm surge fuelled by the Atlantic’s record warmth. Beryl made landfall on the island of Carriacou in Grenada as the earliest Category 4 storm in the Atlantic, then late … Read more
A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6. Studies have shown that the strongest tropical storms are getting more intense because of climate change. So the traditional five-category Saffir-Simpson scale, developed … Read more
