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MIAMI -- A tropical wave racing toward the Caribbean and expected to spin into a potentially dangerous storm will likely reach the Windward Islands by Wednesday.

At 4:20 p.m. EDT Tuesday, National Hurricane Center forecasters said the system was located about 300 miles east-southeast of Barbados and was continuing to show signs of strengthening...Read more

MIAMI -- Hurricane forecasters have upped the odds of a fast-moving tropical wave rolling toward the Windward Islands becoming a depression in the next day or two.

Monday afternoon, the system was located about 950 miles east, southeast of the islands and becoming better organized. The storm was headed west-northwestward at 15 to 20 mph, ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- It's the weather, so it doesn't always do what people think it might.

That was the case with now-Tropical Depression Karl on Wednesday, which instead of strengthening as expected, thumbed its nose at high-tech forecasting tools and weakened to a tropical depression.

But the weakening was thought to be temporary. Karl, ...Read more

TAIPEI -- Super Typhoon Meranti caused flooding and left almost 170,000 households in Taiwan without electricity on Wednesday, as the eye of the storm passed close by the south of the island nation.

Since late Tuesday, powerful winds and torrential rains have hit the east and south of the country, leading to schools and most offices remaining ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Forecasters said Tuesday afternoon that a large system of storms along Florida's northeast coast had a 40 percent chance of developing into a tropical cyclone.

"This system is very close to having the organization required of a tropical cyclone," according to a Tropical Weather Outlook issued by the Miami-based National...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The season's ninth tropical storm, Ian, has formed in the Central Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center says.

It poses no threat to land.

According to an 11 a.m. EDT bulletin from the Miami-based hurricane center, Ian was about 1,140 miles southeast of Bermuda and packing maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, just...Read more

WASHINGTON -- High winds and heavy waves from slow-moving Tropical Storm Hermine hammered the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the weekend, with forecasts predicting that the system could regain hurricane strength by Monday as it crawls north.

Millions of people along the eastern seaboard from North Carolina to New Jersey were in regions under storm ...Read more

VALDOSTA, Ga. -- The sky turned a fire hose on this city Friday morning, knocking out power, sending scores of people to a shelter and blowing down trees onto roofs.

People huddled in their homes could hear, if not feel, the wind and rain scratching and pushing at their walls. The driving winds were blowing hard at the trees and everything else...Read more

Hurricane warnings reached across the Florida Panhandle Thursday as the state braced for Hermine.

The tropical storm continued to intensify Thursday morning, with sustained winds climbing to 65 mph and a large swath of the coast already seeing a foot of storm surge. At 8 a.m., Hermine was located 195 miles southwest of Apalachicola heading ...Read more

MIAMI -- A messy tropical wave that strengthened to a tropical depression late Sunday as it pushed into the Gulf of Mexico could gain more power Monday

In their 11 a.m. advisory, National Hurricane Center forecasters said the system would likely become a tropical storm later Monday. Located about 170 miles west, southwest of Key West, the storm...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Showers and thunderstorms increased Friday in the tropical system approaching Florida, but it appears South Florida will see nothing this weekend but some gusts and heavy rain.

The National Hurricane Center's forecast showed Broward and Palm Beach counties to be outside the area that could see a tropical depression or ...Read more

MIAMI -- Regardless of whether a tropical wave threatening South Florida actually musters the strength to become a more fierce storm, forecasters say the region is in for a soggy, wet weekend, with possible flooding. The wave weakened slightly Thursday afternoon as it continued to encounter crippling wind shear. But forecasters say there's still...Read more

MIAMI -- Once it gets past the Bahamas, a storm tumbling across the Caribbean toward Florida risks getting worse, fast.

A hurricane hunter plane sent Wednesday found tropical storm force winds streaming from the storm, but no clear center, the National Hurricane Center reported. Until it becomes better organized, forecasters say it's too soon ...Read more

MIAMI -- Right on schedule, hurricane season is heating up.

A tropical wave pointed toward the islands and South Florida is threatening to intensify while a second wave just off the coast of Africa became the season's seventh tropical depression Monday. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Fiona continues to trek east about 500 miles from the northern ...Read more

BREAUX BRIDGE, La. -- Anita Leblanc was riding home on a tractor through several feet of floodwater Sunday, the same tractor that moments before had towed her car away from the overflowing Vermilion River to safety.

More than a week after a storm flooded much of central Louisiana, killing 13, more than 86,000 have applied for assistance from ...Read more