Hurricanes are some of nature’s largest and most ferocious storms. Only a small handful of these sprawling systems ever reach Category 5 intensity. Many of these scale-topping hurricanes remained out ...

Welcome to week 11 of Tracking the Tropics, your weekly in-depth look at topics concerning the Atlantic Hurricane season. On this week’s show, Dr. Michael Brennan from the National Hurricane Center ...

Hurricane Camille had the highest wind speed at landfall at an estimated 190 miles per hour when it struck the Mississippi coast as a category 5 storm in 1969. The actual wind speeds at landfall will ...

The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1 and runs through Nov. 30 and on average, the Atlantic basin sees about seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes a year. On the Saffir-Simpson ...

One of the strongest hurricanes to ever make landfall also became one of Virginia’s worst natural disasters. Hurricane Camille made landfall along the Gulf Coast on Aug. 17, 1969, as a powerful ...

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