On Monday morning, a storm chaser's probe documented a staggering wind gust of nearly 250 mph—among the highest ever recorded ...

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa has made landfall already in Jamaica and Cuba, as one of the strongest hurricanes to ever make ...

New Hampshire's Mount Washington is the highest peak in the Northeast, and trails to the summit are considered especially ...

The Franco-American satellite SWOT has just set a new record: 19.7 meters (64.6 feet), the greatest wave height ever measured ...

Hurricane Melissa is among the strongest hurricanes to have formed in the Atlantic Ocean since records were kept, ranking as ...

Melissa is one of the strongest hurricanes in the Atlantic basin. Here's how it compares with previous powerful hurricanes.

A line of thunderstorms that moved across North Texas on Aug. 4 produced the highest wind gust ever recorded at DFW. At 4:39 a.m., the observation at DFW Airport recorded a wind gust of 89 mph. This ...

Michigan endured strong winds on Friday, Sept. 5, that led to gale warnings across the Great Lakes, with many areas across the state recording 50 mph wind gusts. In addition to widespread gale ...

Melissa is among three Atlantic hurricanes to make landfall with 185 mph winds. Another storm to do so was the Labor Day ...

Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica on October 28 as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to ever make landfall on the island nation. The storm’s rapid intensification over unusually warm ...

Hurricane Melissa— one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded—is now off Cuba’s eastern coast, after leaving a ...