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Researcher proposes new hurricane scale to better communicate storm risks

A USF professor is pushing for a revamped hurricane scale to include storm surge and flooding criteria instead of just relying on sustained wind speeds.

TAMPA, Fla.- For decades, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale ^[1] has served as the only way to categorize hurricanes, ranking cyclones from Category 1 to 5 based on sustained wind speeds, but researchers say the focus on winds leaves out hazard impacts

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Hurricanes are some of the strongest storms on Earth, and scientists are still working to improve hurricane forecasting. Science Director of NOAA’s Hurricane Field Program Jason Dunion talks about the SASCWATCH Project, which works to understand hurricanes and what fuels them.

BOULDER, Colo. – A new tool from NOAA ^[1] is the first to ever provide hourly updates on wildfire behavior, giving more accurate and timely predictions of wildfire ^[2] activity.

The tool, called the Hourly Wildfire Potential Index ^[3] (HWP) was developed by

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The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a tropical wave that's about to move off the coast of Africa that's producing a broad area of showers and thunderstorms. The NHC gives this system a medium chance of developing into a Tropical Depression by the middle of next week.

Updated:10:30 a.m.ET, Sept.12, 2025.

The disturbance just moving off Africa is accompanied by a cluster of moderate thunderstorms.Sometimes systems this robust relatively quickly turn into tropical depressions or tropical storms in the Atlantic.That’s

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Summer heat returns to central U.S. from Dallas to Minneapolis. By this weekend over 150 million Americans will be experiencing above average temperatures with high temperatures 10-15 above average due to an Omega Block weather pattern.

ST.LOUIS – After a couple of weeks of wet weather and some October-like temperatures, the central U.S.^[1] will heat up as a dome of high pressure brings summer ^[2] weather back to the heartland.

Some 150 million Americans will be experiencing temperatures

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The National Hurricane Center is giving the area to watch off the coast of Africa a 30% chance of development over the next week. However, the likelihood that we see more tropical activity over the next few weeks remains in place.

The Pacific's newest tropical depression formed off the southern coast of Mexico ^[1] on Thursday, with forecasters warning that the cyclone system could become the thirteenth named storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane season.

As of Thursday, the cyclone was

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Tropical Storm Mario formed off the Pacific coast of Mexico Friday morning. It is the 13th named storm of the season in the Pacific Basin.

Tropical Storm ^[1] Mario formed off the coast of Mexico ^[2] in the Eastern Pacific Ocean ^[3] Friday morning, threatening heavy rain and some potential for flash flooding along the coast's higher terrain.

Mario is now the 13th named storm of the eastern Pacific

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The status of whether the world is being impacted by an El Nino or a La Nina is determined by water temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific. (NOAA)

Critical parts of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean remain in a holding pattern, with neither La Niña ^[1] nor El Niño in control as the fall approaches.

NOAA forecasters said a transition from ENSO-neutral to La Niña could still happen during the

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FILE: Saildrones are unmanned surface vehicles used to collect data amid powerful hurricanes. This initiative is done to hopefully use the collected data/mapping to be used towards forecasting.

MIAMI – NOAA ^[1] has five new helpers in the Atlantic as the statistical peak of hurricane ^[2] season happens, even with the ongoing lull in activity.^[3]

The extra data from five small uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) by UK-based robotics company Oshen called

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Updated at 9:15 a.m.ET on Thursday, Sept.11, 2025

The Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf are still quiet, but a disturbance forecast to move off Africa tomorrow has a chance of eventually developing.The National Hurricane Center is drawing a low-odds development

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FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and weather news headlines for your Weather in America on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.

Welcome to the Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather.It's Thursday, Sept.11, 2025.Start your day with everything you need to know about today's weather.You can also get a quick briefing of national, regional and local weather ^[1] whenever you like with

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Researcher proposes new hurricane scale to better communicate storm risks

New NOAA tool helps predict wildfire activity in US

Bryan Norcross hurricane analysis for Sept. 12, 2025

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Watching for the 13th named storm of season along Mexico's Pacific coast

Tropical Storm Mario forms along Mexico's Pacific coast

World climate pattern status hovers above La Nina territory

NOAA’s new fleet of tiny ocean robots is helping to study tropical activity

Bryan Norcross: There's finally an area to watch in the eastern Atlantic

Today's top weather news: New area to watch in Atlantic as Omega block pattern takes hold of US

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