Deep ocean hot spots packed with heat are making the strongest hurricanes and typhoons more likely—and more dangerous. These ...

Tropical Cyclone Zelia was a Category 5 storm as it approached Western Australia on Thursday. This image was acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument aboard the joint ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall somewhere between Queensland's Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast in the early hours of Friday morning. At the moment, its wind speeds class it as a ...

Ocean heat is quietly rewriting the rules of the planet’s most dangerous storms, loading hurricanes with more fuel than the current scale was ever designed to capture. As those waters warm, a growing ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is closing in on southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales, with authorities warning residents to “prepare now” for the “extremely rare event”. Millions of people in ...

For each coastal community covered by the forecast we issue: a tropical cyclone watch when gales are expected in the next 24 ...

Steve Turton has previously received funding from the Australian Government. Category 2 cyclones produce winds at levels considered damaging at best, destructive at worst – typically gusting as high ...

Hurricane Melissa is set to pummel Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago. The storm was expected to make landfall early ...

A family in Cuba salvages belongings from the rubble of their home after it collapsed during Hurricane Melissa's passage through Santiago de Cuba on Wednesday. (Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images) After ...

Liz Ritchie-Tyo receives funding from The Australian Research Council and the U.S. Office of Naval Research Andrew Dowdy receives funding from University of Melbourne as well as supported through the ...