University of Birmingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Bangor University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. When a major cyclone tears through an ...

Tropical depression: Maximum sustained wind speed less than 63 km/h. Tropical storm: Maximum sustained wind speed more than 63 km/h, and it is given a name. Hurricane, typhoon, or tropical cyclone: ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – As Hurricane Erin continues to move along the East Coast, there are many differences when it comes to tropical storms. There are many different types of storms that can ...

When tropical storms make headlines, certain countries and regions are repeatedly part of the story. Why is that and what fuels cyclones and their paths?

You don’t have to be a professional meteorologist to know how to spot an emerging tropical cyclone. Understanding how hurricanes form can help, though. To get you caught up, here are some basic signs ...

Meteorologists from the University of the Philippines have analyzed 45 years of Philippine tropical cyclone data, revealing ...

Social media users have long claimed 19th-century Australian meteorologist Clement L. Wragge is the reason modern hurricanes receive human names. Wragge, who monitored weather in the late-19th- and ...