Forecasters with the NOAA National Weather Service Honolulu Forecast Office are predicting an above-normal hurricane season for the central Pacific basin this year. NOAA’s outlook for the 2026 hurricane season,

A low-category hurricane, soon to be named Imelda, may reach coastal Georgia and the Carolinas early next week, the National Weather Service (NWS) predicts. Or at least, a tropical storm near or at hurricane-intensity. "Later in the day on Monday we'll ...

NOAA is rolling out an experimental tool to help emergency planners predict extreme rain events in 60 cities, including Philadelphia and Dover, Delaware.

While Jamaica braces for hurricane Melissa, the strongest storm of 2025, Alachua County residents have had an unusually quiet October, void of hurricane preparation and tracking. UF Chief Meteorologist Tim Miller, who also serves as director of the Florida ...

Nothing like Helene, and nothing like three hurricanes making landfall in 66 days. Sunday’s end to the hurricane season for the Atlantic Basin was welcomed from the Gulf states to the Atlantic seaboard, with gratitude not a single one made landfall in ...

Fueling Hurricanes There are two main ways that forecasters use sea level measurements, said Mark DeMaria, a senior research scientist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. One way is to help set the proper ocean conditions in ocean-atmosphere hurricane forecast models utilized by the National Hurricane Center.

Recovery efforts are underway after Hurricane Melissa left a path of devastation in the Caribbean this week. The United Nations said the damage in Jamaica, where the storm made landfall on Tuesday (October 28) as a Category 5 hurricane, was on a level ...