Hurricanes are strong storms that wreak havoc in tropical areas and beyond, but there’s more to them than meets the eye. The word hurricane is believed to come from the indigenous Caribbean Taino word ...
The 2025 hurricane season is drawing to a close without a single one making landfall in the continental United States.
It’s been 176 days since hurricane season kicked off on June 1, and we’re now less than a week until it draws to a close.
Despite a handful of powerful systems, no hurricane made a direct U.S. landfall in 2025 — something we haven't seen in a ...
Our expert reflects on the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season and whether it has truly come to an end. How did it compare to ...
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is about to wrap up with a strange split personality: fewer storms than normal, but an almost record-breaking number of Category 5 hurricanes. In fact, three storms ...
Although no hurricanes made landfall this year, three catapulted to Category 5 intensity — the second-highest number of such ...
As it turns out, the hurricane naming system is an organized, multistep global process—not someone randomly selecting names ...