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Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria devastated communities in the southern U.S. and Puerto Rico in 2017, and together resulted in around $265 billion in damage. Will the U.S. and Caribbean face more brutal storms this year?...

Do we need a category six in defining storms? Some climate scientists think so, as tropical cyclones increase in duration, intensity, and strength, The Guardian reported...

A massive winter storm known as a "bomb cyclone" will smash into the US East Coast this week. This powerful weather event will bring an even deeper freeze to a region that has suffered bitter cold weather for the past 10...

When you hear the word 'hurricane,' you probably don't think about Ireland. But Tropical Storm Ophelia, which has been downgraded from its status as a hurricane, is on a path towards the country, with warnings of high seas,...

Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico earlier today as a Category 4 storm. While it had weakened from a Category 5, officials still warned the hurricane is dangerous - forecasters said there could be life-threatening winds blowing...

NASA captured an astonishing video of Hurricane Irma from space. Soon after the National Hurricane Center upgraded Irma to a Category 5 storm, the International Space Station's external cameras caught what NASA described...

Hurricane Irma has been upgraded to a Category 5 storm, and could be one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is warning that Irma could potentially be catastrophic, with winds...

Melting Arctic ice and spiking temperatures don't just affect the northernmost part of Earth. According to Cornell University professor Charles Greene, they can also impact storms, like Hurricane Harvey, that are thousands...

People battling flooding and destruction in Texas after Tropical Storm Harvey face yet another hazard: fire ants. Photos on social media show patches of ants floating together through floodwaters - and though this behavior...

An intense typhoon that meteorologists have called a “near-perfect storm” ripped through Taiwan today, leaving a trail of destruction, dozens injured, and two deaths in its wake...

In response to the impending snow storm bearing down on the Northeast, Washington D.C. Mayor Mayor Muriel Bowser has issued a warning that the "major storm has life and death implications, and all the residents of the District...

Cyclone Pam, a category 5 storm which hit the South Pacific over Friday and Saturday (March 13-14th), has been described as a worst case scenario storm for the archipelago of Vanuatu...

After Hurricane Sandy, which devastated the East Coast in 2012, it’s more important than ever to make sure you, your home and your family are prepared to weather hurricane season when it strikes—as it inevitably does...

The motto "always be prepared" is a good one to keep in mind, but one might not understand the importance of that until immersed in a situation that one hasn't prepared properly for at all...

In what’s being called an extremely rare and unprecedented event, two tropical storms are set to batter Hawaii back to back. The Huffington Post reports that the National Weather Service Pacific Hurricane Center (NWSCPH)...