Here is our ranked list of the strangest things we saw in 2024, followed by some other oddities that didn't quite make the ...
No — it is not possible for a hurricane to reach past a Category 5, per the Saffir-Simpson scale. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), the Saffir-Simpson tool measures wind speed on ...
The last 365 days have been filled with extreme weather events, including powerful hurricanes and other natural disasters, ...
The 2024 total includes 17 severe weather events, four tropical cyclones, one wildfire and two winter storms. NOAA attributes ...
Jan–Nov 2024 was the warmest such period on record—2.30°F (1.28°C) above the 20th-century average. According to the #NCEI ...
The Gulf of Mexico coastline transformed into a bullseye for major storms, which have taken aim from Corpus Christi, Texas, ...
While Hurricane Beryl formed in early July to become the earliest Atlantic Category 5 hurricane on record, we saw a significant lull of activity around August, normally the peak of the season ...
Of the 11 hurricanes, eight of them made landfall - five of those in the continental U.S. The season was also historic in many ways. There were two Category 5 storms, Beryl and Milton. Since 1950 ...