The safest place to be when a hurricane approaches is somewhere else; so you should definitely evacuate when you are told to. Hurricanes are not entirely predictable but they're slow enough that evacuation is usually possible.

Hurricane Hunters were forced to cut short their reconnaissance mission into the Category 5 Hurricane Melissa Monday morning, Oct. 27.

Melissa is now a Category 1 moving through the Bahamas after the storm made a historic landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history.

Gabrielle has strengthened to Hurricane Gabrielle Sunday with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, according to the 5 p.m. National Hurricane Center advisory. On the forecast track, the center of Hurricane Gabrielle is expected to pass east of Bermuda on ...

November is the final month of hurricane season, but just because it's at the end doesn't mean hurricanes won't strike the Gulf states.

Hurricane Humberto and another storm that could turn into Imelda are both churning in the Atlantic, close enough for a potential Fujiwhara effect and posing a threat to the United States and its East Coast. Here's what to know. Humberto strenthened into ...

The remnants of Hurricane Humberto, the eighth named storm to emerge this hurricane season, is currently swirling in the Atlantic to the north of Hurricane Imelda. Questions about whether the two storms will collide have circulated since Imelda formed.

According to the NHC, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Robert Homer Simpson, is a rating of 1 to 5 based on a hurricane's sustained wind speed and its potential for significant loss of life and damage.

Melissa is not expected to make landfall in Florida or the U.S. The powerful storm made landfall on Jamaica Tuesday morning and on Cuba early Wednesday morning. It's expected to move across the Bahamas later today and passes near Bermuda on Thursday night.