Eastern Caribbean Braces for Rain, Wind as Erika Approaches
Governments ordered schools, airports and even casinos to close and they prepared shelters as Tropical Storm Erika approached the eastern Caribbean on Wednesday.
Typhoon Goni Brushes the Philippines; Atsani to Skirt Japanese Islands
Twin typhoons Goni and Atsani are churning through the tropical western Pacific Ocean. One is beginning to affect the northern Philippines and Taiwan, and will also affect Japan’s Ryukyu Islands this weekend.
Amazon Fire Risk Linked to Devastating Hurricanes
Researchers have uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage North Atlantic shorelines.
10 Years After The Storm: Has New Orleans Learned The Lessons of Hurricane Katrina?
A decade after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, David Uberti goes in search of the people who were at the heart of its recovery, to understand what the city has gone through – and where it might be heading.
Typhoon Soudelor Impacts
Typhoon Soudelor battered Taiwan and made landfall in China on Saturday after killing at least six, leaving four missing and causing a record-breaking amount of power outages.
New Insights on Hurricane Intensity, Pollution Transport
Researchers study currents that fuel hurricanes and transport pollutants to coastal beaches.
Typhoon Chan-hom Makes Landfall in China, Bears Down on Shanghai
Chan-hom made landfall in Zhoushan city, Zhejiang Province at 4:40 p.m local time Saturday. This is the strongest landfalling storm to hit within 200 miles of Shanghai in at least 35 years.
Tropical Storm Bill Bears Down on Texas Coast
According to NOAA’s forecast and advisory, the combination of a storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by risingwaters.
Hurricane Blanca
Hurricane Blanca, the second named storm of the eastern Pacific season, alternated between interesting and alarming, dynamic and stagnant in the first week of June 2015. The storm set a record as the earliest second hurricane in an eastern Pacific season. The west coast of Mexico should prepare for a battering this summer into the fall.