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Byline: Matthew Cappucci It has already been an exhausting hurricane season. Five hurricanes have hit the Gulf Coast - Beryl, Debby, Francine, Helene and Milton - and two of them [...]

Weather experts say the spiraling falsehoods, especially claims that the government is creating or controlling storms, have gotten out of hand. A meteorologist based in Washington, D.C., was accused of […]

Byline: Mark Johnson Hurricanes Helene and Milton blew long-winged sooty terns and high-flying frigatebirds hundreds of miles away from their ocean comfort zones into Indiana, Kentucky and other inland states. [...]

The St. Petersburg stadium, home to M.L.B.'s Tampa Bay Rays, was being used to house emergency workers. Video showed parts of the fiberglass roof blowing in the wind. Strong winds [...]

Byline: Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Bryan Pietsch ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. - Neighbors in Vina Del Mar Island, a subdivision off the coast of St. Petersburg, Fla., were debating if and when [...]

Byline: Lori Rozsa, Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Bryan Pietsch TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. - Hurricane Milton explosively intensified Monday into one of the strongest hurricanes on record as it hurtled toward a highly [...]

Byline: Seth Borenstein; ASSOCIATED PRESS More than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed [...]

Many residents have evacuated Cedar Key, a community on a string of islands jutting into the Gulf of Mexico. But about 50 people have remained to risk Hurricane Helene. As [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci A major hurricane is forecast to slam into Florida's Gulf Coast on Thursday, unleashing destructive winds, a potentially âlife-threateningâ storm surge and dangerous amounts of rain. The [...]

Byline: Scott Dance Hurricane Helene may become the latest Gulf storm to avoid a direct hit on the vulnerable and populous Tampa Bay region, forecasts suggest. But as an emergency [...]

Byline: Scott Dance Soon after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas in 2017 as a major storm, it weakened - and then lingered. As a tropical storm with relatively low-end [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci It's been almost two days since Francine swept ashore Louisiana's coast, but it is still delivering flooding as its moisture swirls inland. Meanwhile forecasters are monitoring the [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Hurricane Francine isn't the only storm on the map: Forecasters are tracking four other disturbances across the Atlantic, which now appears to have fully woken [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci Odds are increasing that a hurricane will strike Florida late this weekend and that this same storm could also cause substantial problems from south Georgia to the [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci Hurricane Lee has been a storm of unbridled power and unexpected caprice. It rapidly went from Category 1 to Category 5 intensity between Thursday and Friday, becoming [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci Hurricane Lee weakened slightly Friday to a Category 4 after rapidly gaining strength the day before, when it leaped from a low-end Category 1 to a monstrous [...]

Byline: Ian Livingston and Jason Samenow For the first time on record, storms have reached top-tier Category 5 strength in every tropical ocean basin in the same year. A combination [...]

Byline: Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY Forecasters are monitoring the development of one and potentially two tropical systems over what have been record warm waters between the Caribbean and West Africa, [...]

Byline: Jason Samenow The second day of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season has produced its first named storm. Tropical Storm Arlene developed about 265 miles west of Fort Myers, Fla., [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The federal government predicts a near-normal 2023 hurricane season for the Atlantic Basin: Five to nine hurricanes are expected to form. [...]

Byline: Scott Dance Under normal circumstances, a quiet Atlantic hurricane season would be a safe bet this year: The global climate pattern known as El Niño is fast developing, and [...]

Byline: Dinah Voyles Pulver and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY As Hurricane Ian zeroed in on Florida, the National Hurricane Center's track forecast graphic fluctuated along the coast as specialists tried [...]

Byline: Clayton Park Dave Berman, Fort Myers News-Press, USA TODAY NETWORK FORT MYERS, Fla. - Chrissy Coffey and her family bought their home on Fort Myers Beach nine months ago. [...]

Byline: Eve Chen, Zach Wichter and Kathleen WongUSA TODAY Many Florida airports were closed Thursday and numerous flights were canceled as Ian hammered the state. Jacksonville International Airport (JAX): All [...]

Byline: Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY Hurricane Ian's forecast path northward near the Florida coast threatens millions, especially its potentially deadly and devastating storm surge that could push into bays [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY For the first time since 1997, not a single hurricane or tropical storm formed in the Atlantic basin in August. This includes storms that spin [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci In May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an outlook calling for the seventh above-average Atlantic hurricane season in a row. Like many experts, NOAA argued [...]

This year's outlook from NOAA forecasters predicts between 14 to 21 named storms, with between six and 10 expected to reach hurricane strength. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expects [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci and Kasha Patel Researchers at Colorado State University are calling for the seventh consecutive above-average Atlantic hurricane season. The scientists, who study large-scale features of the atmosphere [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Hurricanes - and the storms like them around the planet - have been decreasing worldwide over the past 30 years or so, according to a [...]

Byline: Jason Samenow Amid an exceptionally busy Atlantic hurricane season, Sam has become the latest ferocious storm. Now a Category 3 hurricane with 120 mph winds, it is predicted to [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci Sam was a mere tropical depression Thursday morning, but by early Friday it stood at hurricane strength after a textbook rapid intensification. It's set to make a [...]

Byline: John Bacon, USA TODAY Hurricane Larry is making big waves in the Atlantic, but a series of smaller, developing storms could create more big problems for the battered Louisiana's [...]

Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS -- Lead The New Orleans Saints cancelled their home preseason game set for Saturday against the Arizona Cardinals because of the potential for Hurricane [...]

Byline: N'dea Yancey-Bragg, and Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY Days after Henri battered the Northeast as a tropical storm, a tropical depression in the Caribbean is heading toward the Gulf of [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci and Jason Samenow Sunday marks the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 storm. It also marks the expected landfall of Hurricane [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci and Jason Samenow A significant hurricane is predicted to develop in the Gulf of Mexico and impact portions of the U.S. Gulf Coast this weekend into early [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci The tropical Atlantic is quiet at this point, but that's merely an opportunity to catch our breath. At least three systems are forming over the basin's mild [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins and Matthew Cappucci Dave Caron was expecting a rush, so he showed up early Saturday morning to unlock his grocery store in Branford, Conn. Already, 20 people [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci Hurricane warnings have been issued for Long Island and parts of coastal Connecticut ahead of Tropical Storm Henri, which is expected arrive near or at hurricane strength [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci Henri intensified into a hurricane Saturday morning, as the storm charged up the East Coast toward Long Island and southern New England, where it is expected to [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY The federal government continues to expect another active Atlantic hurricane season in 2021: seven to 10 hurricanes forming, according to an updated forecast released Wednesday. [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci After a record start to Atlantic hurricane season in May and June, tropical storminess shut down in mid-July. But signs point to a dramatic ramp-up in activity [...]

Byline: John Cox, Special to USA TODAY Can a plane fly over a hurricane? Yes, it is possible to overfly a hurricane while staying away from the storm. Pilots check [...]

Byline: Jason Samenow Hurricane Elsa, racing across the Caribbean, is on a track to bring disruptive weather to Florida early next week, with impacts from the storm arriving as soon [...]

Byline: John Bacon, USA TODAY A tropical depression formed off the North Carolina coast Monday and was poised to become the second named storm of what could develop into a [...]