Before, during, and after the storm. When Hurricane Wilma tore through South Florida, and most residents lost power, our cameras and crews continued rolling, covering every angle of this hurricane and keeping you informed from beginning to end. WPTV NewsChannel 5 is offering a special retrospective on one of South Florida's costliest storms. 

Beware of price gouging before and after a storm. Price gouging is when the cost of necessities such as food, water, ice, gasoline, lumber, generators or hotel rooms is raised to take advantage of people during an emergency.

The hurricane season still is more than two weeks away, but already we've had our first named storm and from early projections, this is going to be an active season. So are we looking at future storm seasons to have more hurricanes and stronger hurricanes? That's the question we put to Storm Team Five Chief Meteorologist Steve Weagle.

Steve Weagle answers your questions about this hurricane season and how you can make preparations.

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a 1-5 rating based on the hurricane's present intensity. This is used to give an estimate of the potential property damage and flooding expected along the coast from a hurricane landfall.

Glossary of National Hurricane Center Terms.

Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive given names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification methods. These advantages are especially important in exchanging detailed storm information between hundreds of widely scattered stations, coastal bases, and ships at sea.