There are some places where a headscarf and windbreaker just won’t cut it. Places that are regularly whipped and whisked up by extreme, super-speedy winds. Places that rank 12 on the Beaufort Scale, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a gust in Hurricane Melissa setting a record for peak gust measured by a specialized instrument dropped into the eye of a ...

Hurricane Melissa set a new world record for the highest wind gust ever recorded at 252 mph. The storm made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane, killing at least 90 people. Melissa's path ...

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 ...

Hurricane-force winds battered Colorado’s Front Range this week, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses, closing highways and dozens of schools and causing extensive ...

With a gust in Hurricane Melissa setting a record for peak gust measured by a specialized instrument dropped into the eye of a hurricane – 252 mph – you might be wondering what the fastest wind speeds ...