Hurricane Florence ravaged the Carolinas, dropping tremendous amounts of rain over these areas and bringing damaging winds.

Hurricane Florence took the lives of 51 people and left around $17 billion in damages across the Carolinas. It is estimated ...

North Carolina has officially broken the state record for most rainfall ever from a tropical storm. Hurricane Florence, which downgraded to a tropical storm on Friday, has continued to bring rain as ...

Storm surge and floodng are the deadliest aspects of hurricanes, yet the current scale uses wind information. University of ...

For decades, the Saffir-Simpson scale has rated hurricanes solely by wind strength, from Category 1 to 5. But researchers say ...

Researchers at the University of South Florida have proposed a new Tropical Cyclone Severity Scale that factors in wind, ...

September has historically been a big month for hurricanes in southeastern North Carolina, from Fran to Floyd to Florence in the last thirty years alone.

The Atlantic basin is starting to pick up in activity after weeks without any named storms during the climatological peak of ...

The new scale is called the Tropical Cyclone Severity Scale (TCSS) and it provides a different category for each hazard (wind ...

The Atlantic hurricane season is June 1st through Nov. 30th. The peak date is Sept. 10th.