Hurricane

As Hurricane Lee moved closer to the East Coast Wednesday, a tropical storm watch was issued for most of the New England coast, and a hurricane watch for part of the Maine coast. Additionally, a storm surge watch was issued for Cape Cod Bay and Nantucket and a tropical storm warning — the step up from a tropical storm watch…

Floridians are already working to put their communities back together, one day after a Category 3 hurricane brought record storm surges to the region.

Hurricane Idalia hit Florida early Wednesday as a major Category 3 storm.

Tropical Storm Idalia continues to strengthen as it nears the western tip of Cuba as of Monday afternoon. The 2 p.m. update from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) shows the storm has 70 mph sustained winds with gusts to 75 mph putting her just shy of Category 1 Hurricane status. Idalia will continue to move north around 8 mph through…

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Here’s where the word “hurricane” comes from and how these storms differ (or not) from cyclones and typhoons.

Hurricane Hilary headed for Mexico’s Baja California on Saturday as the U.S. National Hurricane Center predicted “catastrophic and life-threatening flooding” for the peninsula and for the southwestern United States

Former Hurricane Roslyn slammed into a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico’s Pacific coast between the resorts of Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan.

Southwest Florida is getting some advice from the Florida Panhandle as it moves ahead after Hurricane Ian.

Boston is one of the city’s at highest risk of flooding at its hospitals in the event of a major storm, based on sea level rise predictions in the next century, according to a new study from Harvard. According to the study, which focused on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, “sea level rise expected in this century due to...

The storm flooded homes on both of the state’s coasts, cut off the only bridge to a barrier island, destroyed a historic waterfront pier and knocked out electricity to 2.67 million Florida homes and businesses.

Strong winds and deadly storm surge from Hurricane Ian threatened the lives of a Fitchburg, Massachusetts, woman, her husband, and others in Naples, Florida — one of the hardest hit areas — on Wednesday. “As you can see the road is filling up,” Tricia Erwin said, while panning her phone around her parking lot in a cellphone video. Erwin lost…

Hurricane hunter Nick Underwood, of the NOAA, spoke to NBC10 Boston Wednesday night.

NASA is skipping next week’s launch attempt of its new moon rocket because of a tropical storm that’s expected to become a major hurricane.

Leaders in Boston and Massachusetts are planning for the possibility of thousands of Puerto Ricans heading to the area for relief after Hurricane Fiona slammed the island. The hurricane began pounding Puerto Rico over the weekend, causing flooding and landslides that ripped apart homes. “We probably will see an influx of a couple thousand, maybe more,” Boston City Councilor Ricardo…

Topical Storm Fiona formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday

Hurricane Earl is growing larger, but it hasn’t strengthened much — yet. The storm sits 140 miles south of Bermuda with 100 mph winds. Friday, it’s forecast to reach 120 mile an hour winds. Though the storm is nearly 1,000 miles away from the region, it will impact the waters of New England through the end of the week. Swells…

It’s been a quiet hurricane season for the Atlantic Basin to date, but we still have a ways to go — the season lasts through the end of November. We’ve had three tropical storms so far, which is running a little bit behind the pace of last year. And July, in particular, was very quiet. National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season is headed toward Bermuda after killing three people in Cuba and flooding roads in Florida. Alex reached tropical storm force after strengthening off Florida’s east coast early Sunday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Alex has strengthened a bit, with maximum sustained winds reaching 70 mph by late Sunday. It was...