Its description conjures images from the Old Testament – a column of dark storm clouds 40 miles high, crackling with lightning and packing incredible winds of more than 600 mph. Such a storm, dubbed a ...

A hypercane, as the name suggests, is a superhurricane, a hurricane whose intensity approaches the maximum theoretical limits of a hurricane. The word hypercane was coined in a 1995 research paper by ...

Explore how a large asteroid impact could have triggered a series of hypercanes that affected the Earth's climate and ozone layer. Most researchers believe a large asteroid or comet smacked into Earth ...

Hurricane Michael latest: Is Michael a HYPERCANE? THE PHENOMENAL RISE of catastrophically powerful storms, like the 150mph winds of Hurricane Michael currently battering Florida and the southern ...