Hurricane Erin became the Atlantic Ocean’s first hurricane of the season – which runs from June 1 to November 30 – rapidly intensifying to Category 5 on Saturday before weakening to Category 2 on ...

Erin intensified rapidly during the early hours of Saturday. It went from being a tropical storm on Friday morning, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph, to a category 5 hurricane by 11 a.m. on ...

Hurricane season began June 1 and ends Nov. 30, and so far this year there have been 13 named storms, beginning with Tropical Storm Andrea in June and, most recently, Hurricane Melissa, according to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — With hurricane season now in its peak, you may hear meteorologists talk about the so-called “dirty side” of a storm. But what does that phrase really mean, and why does it matter for ...

Adam Robinson stands on a pile of beach sand inside his unit caused by the storm surge from hurricanes Helene and Milton at the Fisherman’s Cove beachfront condominium in Siesta Key, Florida on ...

Americans got lucky this Atlantic hurricane season. The season wraps in under a month, but no hurricanes have directly struck the contiguous U.S. “We haven’t had a landfall of anything higher than a ...

'Forgotten hurricane zone' is sitting in the path of a catastrophe.

As Category 4 Hurricane Laura crashed onshore in Louisiana, it packed winds of 150 mph and caused destruction along its path. But, as hundreds of thousands of residents were evacuated and many more ...

CLEVELAND — "High pressure means sun and fun, Low pressure means doom and gloom." This little quip is how I explain the impacts of high and low pressure in the atmosphere, but not all pressure systems ...