How do hurricanes get named? Hurricanes, aka tropical cyclones, are powerful storms that form over warm ocean waters and can cause serious damage. When you hear about the name of a new hurricane on ...

Hurricane season 2025 wasn’t what the casual observer thinks it was. It wasn’t slow, a snoozer, or “made all those seasonal forecasters look bad.” The Atlantic hurricane season, which ends this Sunday ...

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa was an eye-popping storm, smashing historical records - and the western end of Jamaica - last week. A rapid fire series of new scientific studies also suggest that climate ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Hurricane Melissa has often been described as a “monster hurricane.” In terms of intensity, that characterization is certainly accurate. However, when discussing a storm’s magnitude, ...

For only the second time in the modern satellite era, which began in 1966, the Atlantic was completely quiet through the first half of September. Typically, this is the statistical peak of hurricane ...

Florida’s Indian River Lagoon has been an ecosystem in decline going back to 2011, when harmful algal blooms led to a severe decline in seagrass, the foundational component of shallow coastal ...

MIAMI (AP) — People in the Azores archipelago were advised Monday to monitor the progress of Hurricane Gabrielle which is now a Category 4 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane ...

Powerful hurricanes have shaped coastal communities for centuries, leaving behind destruction that can alter entire regions. Some storms intensified with little warning, catching residents off guard ...

Three studies found that Melissa would have probably been a weaker, drier storm if it weren’t for decades of human-caused warming of the atmosphere. This satellite image was provided by the National ...