Hurricane expert, meteorologist Andy Hazelton, looked over the map for USA TODAY and agreed that the mid-Atlantic is unusually protected due to a combination of geography and meteorology.

While Kirk is not projected to strike the US, the hurricane center is tracking two other systems in the Atlantic basin, ...

The National Hurricane Center is introducing a slate of updates ahead of the Atlantic hurricane season ... the debut of a national rip current risk map for active tropical storms and earlier ...

The map marks first landfalls, and just because direct landfall isn't made by a hurricane ... tracking tornado in Delaware history, a 29-mile trail for an EF1 twister, as it flew up the Atlantic ...