The House on Thursday passed a bill that aims to speed up infrastructure and energy projects — with a new anti-wind amendment in order to get GOP hard-liners on board. The vote was 221-196. The SPEED ...

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 ...

Hurricane Melissa has officially entered the record books after scientists verified a wind gust of 252 mph as the storm approached Jamaica last month. The National Center for Atmospheric Research at ...

Hurricane Melissa's wind gusts reached a record-breaking speed shortly before the storm made landfall in the Caribbean last month, according to data recorded during the deadly event. The data was ...

The incredible 252 mph peak wind gust measured in Hurricane Melissa as it approached Jamaica was verified this week. That wind gust is now officially the highest wind speed ever recorded by the ...

When Melissa grew from a tropical storm into a powerful Category 5 hurricane, it became the fourth of this year’s five Atlantic hurricanes to undergo what hurricane experts call “rapid intensification ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Climate change is affecting global wind patterns in multiple ways, many of which have direct implications for human health. Worsening sand and dust ...

How fast is the wind blowing where you live? As we see on “Weather Hunters,” meteorologists use a tool called an anemometer to measure wind speed. Anemometers work because they have arms with cup-like ...

Apparently, it started with “Speed Racer.” My son Michael Plank grew up watching Japanese anime. It fascinated him. He watched it so often, and so intently, that even I knew the story of Speed Racer, ...

Northwestern Iowa was hit by damaging winds ranging from 80 to 100 mph as a powerful storm meteorologists warned had the potential to develop into a derecho moved across the Plains. The high winds ...

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