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This major cyclone will voyage across an entire continent

A Category 4 cyclone is about to hit northeastern Australia, one of the strongest for the region.

What’s the difference between a hurricane, cyclone and typhoon?

Hurricanes, tropical cyclones and typhoons are all destructive windstorms, but how do they differ from one another? Learn more.

Meet the medicane, a hurricane’s Mediterranean cousin

The storm, which made landfall this week in Libya, is fairly infrequent, with only a dozen forming between 1982 and 2003.

Tropical Cyclone Horacio becomes monster Category 5 storm

Horacio is spinning in the remote South Indian Ocean. It's a reminder that the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is only three months away.

New 5-day hurricane tracking cone will offer more details this season

Updated hurricane cone maps highlight inland watches and warnings to show storm impacts beyond the forecast cone track.

Cyclone Narelle: ‘compact’, dangerous and unusually predictable

Tropical Cyclone Narelle is currently a very dangerous Category 5 storm, sitting off the Far North Queensland Coast some 350 kilometres northeast of Cooktown. Formed in the Coral Sea, Narelle is packing a punch,
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Hurricane? Cyclone? Typhoon? Here’s the difference

WASHINGTON(AP) — Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 114 people in the Philippines with even more missing and then hit Vietnam Friday. A second typhoon, Fong-Wong, is forecast to hit the Philippines around Sunday and strengthen to a major storm by that time