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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A visit to the Indian Ocean islands of Mayotte, which were struck by Cyclone Chido last weekend, reveals the devastating toll of the storm on an impoverished territory that belongs to France.

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