All low-pressure systems are cyclones. Tropical cyclones are lows that derive their energy from thunderstorms at the centre ...

Australia has been warned to prepare for the “worst-case scenario” as Cyclone Alfred heads Down Under. The rare Category 2 storm is nearing the Australian coast and residents are being warned to act ...

The three are almost identical, but there is one factor that determines if it is a hurricane, a typhoon or a cyclone -- and ...

Every hurricane comes from modest beginnings —often just a patch of the atmosphere over a particular spot in the ocean that meteorologists believe could have the makings of a storm. These areas are ...

Annular tropical cyclones resemble doughnut shaped features with a large symmetric eye and a lack of spiral rainbands. The ...

And while it may seem like quite the meteorological mouthful, this designation could make your hurricane season even safer. So, What Is A Potential Tropical Cyclone? A potential tropical cyclone, or ...

As a major winter storm moves across the U.S. this week, it could undergo bombogenesis, or "bomb out," in the Midwest and the Plains. Bombogenesis -- or a "bomb cyclone" -- occurs when the pressure of ...

The Atlantic hurricane season is unusually quiet at its historical peak on September 10. No tropical cyclone activity is ...