Researchers are pushing to replace the wind-only hurricane scale with a new system that also measures storm surge and ...

Storm surge and floodng are the deadliest aspects of hurricanes, yet the current scale uses wind information. University of ...

Peak hurricane season has been unusually quiet despite warm seas, but forecasters say lower wind shear later this month could ...

Twenty years ago today Hurricane Katrina slammed ashore in Louisiana as one of the costliest and deadliest U.S. disasters. Over 1,300 people died and 80% of New Orleans was submerged in water. The ...

There are no tropical systems active anywhere in the Atlantic basin as the peak of the season approaches. Satellite imagery ...

As of 4 p.m. CDT Wednesday, the center of Category 2 Hurricane Erin was located about 295 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., or 520 miles west of Bermuda, and was tracking to the north at ...

Hurricane Erin has begun to move away from the North Carolina coast, although beachgoers are still cautioned against swimming at most beaches along the U.S. East Coast due to rough conditions caused ...

Erin is a large hurricane. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 105 miles, from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 265 miles. Wind: Tropical storm conditions are ...

Though Hurricane Erin will not make landfall in the U.S., here's why a tropical storm watch has been issued for parts of ...

Hurricane Erin's threats prompted North Carolina's governor to declare a state of emergency as the massive storm began bringing huge swells that were impacting the N.C. Outer Banks on Tuesday. The big ...

What does the Pacific Northwest sound like to you? Is it the tide rolling over a rocky beach? The wind across the Palouse? Or maybe a ferry horn echoing across the Puget Sound? On Soundside, we ...