Record hot ocean temperatures and a tardy El Nino are doubling the chances of a nasty Atlantic hurricane season this summer and fall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.

Tropical Storm Cindy has formed behind Tropical Storm Bret, in the first case of two storms in the tropical Atlantic in June since record keeping began, forecasters said Friday.

Tropical Storms Bret and Cindy became the first named Atlantic storms of the 2023 hurricane season. This marks the first time since record keeping began in 1851 that two named storms formed in the Atlantic in the month of June. Bret brought winds, heavy rain and swells of up to 15 feet to islands in…

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Multiple islands have felt the wrath of Hurricane Fiona all week. Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republican were two of the first to be hit, followed most recently by Bermuda. While the eye of the hurricane missed Bermuda, outer portions of the system still caused havoc on the island. Fiona was downgraded to a category…

About 25 percent of all critical infrastructure in the United States is at risk of becoming inoperable due to flooding, that’s according to a report released on Monday from the science and technology nonprofit First Street Foundation. The report, titled “The 3rd National Risk Assessment: Infrastructure on the Brink“, also takes a look at the…

The latest hurricane to hit North America spared the United States and instead slammed into the west coast of Mexico. The video above shows the storm approaching Puerto Los Cabos. Olaf made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane Thursday night near San Jose del Cabo, Mexico. It went on to drench the region including the…

Just days after Hurricane Ida destroyed parts of the southeastern United States, Tropical Storm Mindy hit. It came in through the panhandle of Florida Wednesday night. The video above shows Mindy hitting Franklin County, Florida Wednesday night. According to the National Hurricane Center, Mindy was still dumping rain as a tropical depression as of 11:00…

The remnants of Ida became the deadliest part of the storm, as historic rain was responsible for at least 50 deaths from Maryland to New York. The video above shows some of the flooding, and one of the tornadoes seen Wednesday night. The National Weather Service recorded over three inches of rain in Central Park…

Tropical Storm Fred became the sixth named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season Tuesday night and moved through the Dominican Republic and Haiti Wednesday. The picture above shows the National Hurricane Center’s prediction for the patch of the storm. As of 11:00 a.m. EST, a tropical storm warning was in effect for the Dominican Republic…