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

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.

A little over one month later, on Sept. 26, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Perry, also in the Big Bend region of Florida. With wind speeds of 140 mph, Category 4 Helene became the strongest ...

Hurricane Irma hasn’t touched the South Florida coast yet — but storm-related looting may already be happening. As the Atlantic Ocean’s strongest hurricane ever recorded approaches, airlines ...

Using NOAA data, Stacker summarized the last 100 hurricane seasons in the Atlantic Basin. See which years and storms broke records over the last century.

The Atlantic hurricane season’s first storms of the year have been short-lived rainmakers. Current conditions suggest July ...