Atlantic hurricane season is underway, and its defining feature so far has been deadly inland flooding. While forecasters at ...

A tropical wave is interacting with a broad low pressure area to produce the showers and thunderstorms in the open Atlantic Ocean.

Before modern forecasting, hurricanes were mass casualty events. The 1900 Galveston Hurricane killed over 8,000 people, wiping out an entire city with a 15-foot storm surge. Less than a century ago, ...

There have been three named storms in the Atlantic so far this season: Andrea, Barry, and of course, Chantal. All three storms were short-lived, and briefly reached tropical storm strength. Chantal is ...