From grocery stores to neighborhoods, a hurricane's category might be among the most discussed aspects of a threatening storm. Those categories are based on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, ...

One was a structural engineer who thought in the ways engineers are trained to — logically and result-oriented. The other, was a meteorologist who, at age 6, had survived one of the deadliest ...

This story was updated to add new information. Helene, now officially declared a hurricane by forecasters, is expected to strengthen and make landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast Thursday as a major ...