Darwin has been battered by destructive winds reaching 205km/h, the most powerful to hit the city since deadly Cyclone Tracy.

Hurricane Melissa raged as a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean last month—and now scientists have confirmed that its ...

Hurricane Melissa caused the strongest winds ever recorded by a dropsonde in a tropical cyclone. Our expert provides details ...

While the new measurement sets a global record for dropsondes, it does not surpass the strongest verified surface wind. That ...

A NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft measured a 252-mile-per-hour gust at the ocean surface as the monster storm approached ...

Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research have verified the 252 mph gust measured in the eye of Hurricane ...

Firefighters worked to remove a fallen tree near a Grand Central Park entrance and some scaffolding came down in the Hell's ...

Two 12-hour 'danger to life' amber warnings for up to 6in (150mm) of rain were imposed by the Met Office today for parts of ...

US employers axed about 153,000 workers last month — making it the worst October for layoffs in two decades and bringing total firings for the year so far to over 1 million, according to a new report ...

Marin Coastal Range and Coastal North Bay including Point Reyes National Seashore were placed under a high wind warning by the National Weather Service on Wednesday at 12:37 p.m. The warning is in ...

NOVEMBER WALK I MEAN YOU KNOW THE WIND THE OTHER DAY. NOW THE WIND. USUALLY WE THINK OF MARCH AS BEING THE WINDY MONTH. BUT YOU KNOW THIS, THIS NOVEMBER HAS BEEN EXCEPTIONALLY WINDY AND ESPECIALLY THE ...