Hurricane Rita swirled toward the Gulf Coast as a Category 5 monster as more than 1.3 million people in Texas and Louisiana were evacuated. Deadliest, costliest hurricanes of the past 38 years ...

As The New York Times points out, 2005's Hurricane Rita lowered to a Category 3 intensity before barrelling into Louisiana ...

Refineries shut down in advance of Hurricane Rita have removed about 2.2 million barrels per day of gasoline production from the U.S. market. Including refineries still shut down after Hurricane ...

after Katrina hit company headquarters. Just as Luketich had gotten into a routine from the remote offices, he had to flee Lafayette when Rita roared into town. Rather than push west into Texas ...

Election Day in Lake Charles, Louisiana began with heavy rain and tornado warnings. Belts of precipitation traveling up from ...

As a result, especially during hurricane season, any weak or sloppy tropical waves end up receiving a little “nudge,” resulting in increased cyclone development throughout the Caribbean and ...

High pressure looks to spare the U.S. Gulf states from Hurricane Rafael impacts ...

Hurricane season is still around. Hurricane Rafael, which made landfall in western Cuba as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday, is now gradually moving over the central Gulf of Mexico, according to ...

and the strongest hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico since Hurricane Rita in 2005. Climate change, which has spurred marine heat waves across the majority of the world, ensures hurricanes bring more ...

But serenity was shattered when Hurricane Helene blasted through with extreme winds on Sept. 27. Days of rain had soaked the soils, which made trees on steep slopes more vulnerable when Helene ...

Hurricane Oscar, now downgraded to a tropical storm over Cuba, was the smallest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, meteorologists said Monday. When the storm formed Saturday, hurricane ...