On Wednesday, the city of West Palm Beach held its annual hurricane preparedness drill. The exercise tests the city’s ...

Here are some of the worst hurricanes to strike the United States before July 15, well before the peak of hurricane season.

Most hurricanes take weeks to develop, but some hit the increasingly warm ocean waters and rapidly develop into monsters within days or even hours.

Tropical cyclones typically drop large amounts of rain along and near the storm's path. The slower and more significant the storm’s size, the higher the likelihood of higher rainfall totals. Some ...

On show for the first time will be one of the earliest surviving pieces of couture from her childhood wardrobe: the silver ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a video update and press release on its study of ...

About 24 hours after landfall, Chantal is now a tropical depression, as it wanders across Virginia. The National Hurricane Center is tracking four tropical waves, including one in the Caribbean.

In less than 24 hours, Erick rapidly strengthened from a 65 mph tropical storm to a potentially catastrophic 145 mph Category 4 hurricane as it neared Mexico’s southwest coastline between ...

Hurricane Erick rapidly intensified to Category 4. ... At the time of writing around 7 am EDT, the hurricane was rated as a powerful Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph.

Southern Mexico’s Pacific coast was braced for a Thursday morning impact with the approach of Hurricane Erick, which was upgraded to an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 early Thursday, the ...

Erick rapidly intensified from a 40 mph tropical storm on June 17 into a Category 4 hurricane by midnight on June 19. Six hours later, Erick made landfall in extreme western Oaxaca state east of ...

Southern Mexico’s Pacific coast had been braced for impact. Hurricane Erick was upgraded to an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 early Thursday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.