Rip currents, even from distant storms, are the third-highest cause of death related to hurricanes, after inland flooding from excessive rain and storm surges, according to the Weather Service. This year, the Hurricane Center has started providing rip current forecasts.

Tropical Storm Isaias is forecast to strengthen into Hurricane Isaias before making a dangerous U.S. landfall this weekend, bringing the threat of heavy rain, flooding and tropical storm impacts to the Gulf Coast.

At least two people have been confirmed dead and four missing on Tuesday after Typhoon Dujuan passed Japan’s Pacific coast, bringing record rainfall, triggering landslides and causing widespread transport disruption. Earlier, at least 1.6 million people ...

The National Hurricane Center on Sunday continued to track a system forming in the Gulf that could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm. As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical

Hurricane tracker: Nolo is no longer a hurricane. The powerful storm remains about as strong, but it changed names to a typhoon as it crossed the international dateline in the Pacific Ocean. Hurricane Rachel continued heading westward on a path away from Mexico.