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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...

Hurricane Agatha has become the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in May in the eastern Pacific as it swept ashore on a sparsely populated stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns in southern Mexico. It quickly weakened moving over inland mountains and was downgraded to a tropical storm by late Monday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the...

Hurricane Rick gathered force off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast and is forecast to hit that coast by Monday as a near-Category 3 storm

After the remnants of Hurricane Ida brought record rainfall Wednesday night, rivers overflowed and highways flooded.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said on Wednesday that there have been requests submitted to FEMA for commercial fuel in the region.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards warned people who evacuated southeast Louisiana to avoid Ida that it is not a good time to return to the region.

Henri was upgraded to a hurricane with the National Hurricane Center’s advisory Saturday.

Henri is now a hurricane

A weakened Henri made landfall Sunday afternoon along the coast of Rhode Island with maximum sustained winds around 60 mph, though tropical storm conditions will continue for parts of the tri-state area. Flash flooding remains a huge threat. Henri is expected to slow down and possibly stall near the Connecticut-New York border Sunday night, according to the National Hurricane Center,…

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Hurricane Iota made landfall on Monday night in Nicaragua. Iota is the 30th named storm of the 2020 hurricane season.

Hurricane Eta has erupted quickly into a potentially catastrophic major hurricane as it heads for Central America, and forecasters are warning of massive massive flooding and landslides across a vulnerable region

Hurricane Zeta made landfall on Mexico’s eastern Yucatan Peninsula late Monday, whipping the resorts around Tulum with rain and wind.

The hurricane is expected to make landfall near Lake Charles, La., Friday, just six weeks after Hurricane Laura pummeled the same area.

Hurricane Delta made landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico on Wednesday with winds reaching an estimated 110 mph.

Tropical Storm Beta was expected this week to bring heavy rainfall to parts of the upper Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana, adding to the stress and worry residents and officials have already dealt with during a busy hurricane season

As the remnants of Hurricane Sally continue to dump rain on Georgia and the Carolinas, residents in the strike zone are surveying the damage left behind by the storm.

Hurricane Sally made landfall on the Gulf Coast early Wednesday morning and is crawling north at 5mph, leaving floods and building damage in its wake.

Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore near the Florida-Alabama line Wednesday with 105 mph (165 kph) winds and rain measured in feet, not inches, killing at least one person, swamping homes and forcing the rescue of hundreds as it pushed inland for what could be a slow and disastrous drenching across the Deep South. The death happened in Orange Beach, Alabama, according…