With this year’s hurricane season under way, Al Jazeera visualises the differences between various storm systems.

Hurricanes combine unyielding winds and torrential rain to create some of Earth’s most powerful storms. When hurricanes near land, wind can cause devastating damage, even spawning tornadoes. But the ...

Typhoon Ragasa has now cleared the Luzon Strait and is currently tracking northwest, with gradual weakening expected.

Typhoons, hurricanes and cyclones are all actually the same phenomenon, given different names depending on their location ...

Meteorologist Brian Slocum wrote on X on Thursday: "The Atlantic is getting active apart from Hurricane Erin. A third area of tropical interest has been identified by the National Hurricane Center.

A new weather disturbance has formed east of the Philippines and could develop into a tropical cyclone this week.

Hurricane Erin became the Atlantic Ocean’s first hurricane of the season – which runs from June 1 to November 30 – rapidly intensifying to Category 5 on Saturday before weakening to Category 2 on ...