The devastation of Hurricane Katrina sparked sweeping changes in hurricane forecasting and emergency preparedness. Forecast models, satellite imagery, and real-time data from Hurricane Hunter aircraft ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Wednesday is the statistical peak of the Atlantic Hurricane season, which also happens to mark eight years since Hurricane Irma devastated in the Florida Keys. The season begins in June ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Sept. 10 is considered the statistical peak of the Atlantic hurricane season. It is also a notable date for Floridians: eight years ago, Hurricane Irma made landfall in the ...

Hurricane Melissa is stronger than Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago, forecasters warn. While both storms reached sustained winds of 175 mph at their peak, Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 storm.

Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, arrived in Jamaica on Tuesday, October 28. How are hurricanes named? And will Hurricane Melissa hit the United States?

NhuNgoc Pham was a high school student living in the New Orleans metro area when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. Her parents, immigrants from Vietnam, had recently purchased ...

NEW ORLEANS — Before Hurricane Katrina, there was Hurricane Betsy. Sixty years ago, on Sept. 9, 1965, Betsy struck New Orleans as one of the most destructive hurricanes of its time. Levee breaches ...

We've been lucky in Florida. With dramatic cuts to hurricane planning and response, we could've had a perfect storm of disaster ...

With sustained winds of 175 mph and a powerful central pressure of 906 millibars — among the 11 lowest on record — Melissa will go down as not only Jamaica’s strongest hurricane but among the most ...