All eyes are on Tropical Cyclone Vaianu. But what is a tropical cyclone, and what do the categories mean? Here's what you need to know.

By now, in the run-up to the upcoming northwest Pacific typhoon season, those new to Okinawa or Guam may have heard or seen ...

There’s a chance for triplet cyclones, with two south of the equator and one to the north. This uncommon pattern happens ...

On March 3, the night skies bore witness to the last total lunar eclipse for almost three years, when the moon turns an ...

The Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) is predicting triplet cyclones to form in the Pacific Ocean next week, ...

Most people picture the Amazon or the Congo when they hear the word "rainforest." Dense, tropical, impossibly hot, and a ...

On the other side of the world, a tropical cyclone churning through Australia has made landfall as a Category 4 storm and could make up to two more landfalls as the storm progresses through the ...

A major storm is strengthening off Australia’s northern coast, threatening to bring destructive winds and heavy rains as it heads for landfall in the North Queensland mining region later this week.

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has analyzed 40 years of data covering about 1,500 tropical cyclones and discovered that average rain rates surge by more ...

The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season starts June 1, although storms can develop any time. Tropical Cyclone Horacio in the Indian Ocean became the world's first Category 5 tropical cyclone of 2026. From ...

We may be months away from the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, but tropical cyclones are spinning somewhere on the planet. Indeed, on the other side of the world, "Tropical Cyclone Horacio ...

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