ORLANDO Fla. — The National Hurricane Center continues to keep track Wednesday of a system that could develop in the Caribbean and become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, it said a broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea in the next couple ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center is keeping track Tuesday of a system that could develop in the Caribbean and become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT tropical outlook, it said a broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea in the next few days.

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ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center is keeping track Tuesday of a system that could develop in the Caribbean and become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, it said a broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea in the next few days.

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A new storm could form in the Caribbean this week, and forecasters have been steadily increasing the odds it will strengthen.

As of 2 p.m Eastern time Monday., the National Hurricane Center gave the newest weather system a 40% chance of developing into a tropical depression in the next seven days, with no chance of formation in the next two ...Read more

ORLANDO Fla. — The National Hurricane Center increased the odds that a system could develop in the Caribbean and become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, its said a broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea in the next few days.

...Read more

ORLANDO Fla. — The National Hurricane Center increased the odds that a system could develop in the Caribbean and become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, its said a broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea in the next few days.

“Gradual ...Read more

MIAMI — A new storm could form in the Caribbean this week, and forecasters have been steadily increasing the odds it will strengthen.

As of 8 a.m Monday., the National Hurricane Center gave the newest tropical depression a 40% chance of developing into a tropical depression in the next seven days, with no chance of formation in the next two ...Read more

Typically after tragedy strikes a community you hear about how it brought people together.

This is not that story.

Two weeks ago, McClatchy received a report that U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican from Banner Elk, North Carolina, was preventing seven people from driving off their property at the base of Grandfather Mountain after the ...Read more

HAZLEHURST, Ga. – I’m a Southern-to-the-bone, fried chicken and grits-eating, always barefooted small town girl. Simplicity, in an otherwise crazy, untethered world, is my wealth, my richness, my life.

But my hometown became anything but simple after Hurricane Helene came roaring through in late September with vicious Category 2 winds and ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is proposing $3.9 billion in state Hurricane Helene relief for the western part of the state devastated by flooding.

Total damage in Western North Carolina is estimated at roughly $53 billion, Cooper said. His proposed $3.9 billion would be for costs that won’t be covered by the federal ...Read more

TAMPA BAY, Fla. — Florida’s largest open water estuary and the millions of people who have built their lives around it barely had enough time to detox from the last hurricane-fueled wave of pollution before the next one hit.

Just as the Tampa Bay area was cleaning the mess from Hurricane Helene, along came Milton. The hurricane double-...Read more

The winter could be warm. Rains that might otherwise fall across South Mississippi may instead veer away. And dry breezes that would normally relieve the region of its thick summer heat could bring a new risk: wildfires.

A winter forecast released this month by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says warm temperatures and ...Read more

A five-year-old girl and her mother, along with a 92-year-old man, are among the six people dead after Hurricane Oscar hit the coastal city of Baracoa and nearby areas in the eastern province of Guantánamo in Cuba as a Category 1 storm on Sunday, bringing heavy rains and flash flooding in a region that has been without electricity since Friday....Read more

ORLANDO, Fla, — The surprise hurricane that popped up and lashed Cuba over the weekend lost some steam Monday, and is forecast to turn and head toward the Bahamas and away from Florida by Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT advisory, the center of what is now Tropical Storm Oscar was located about...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla, — The surprise hurricane that popped up and lashed Cuba over the weekend lost some steam Monday, and is forecast to turn and head toward the Bahamas and away from Florida by Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 5 a.m. advisory, the center of what is now Tropical Storm Oscar was located about 5 ...Read more

MIAMI — Oscar retained its hurricane status late Saturday afternoon while still remaining small, forecasters said. The storm has 85 mph maximum sustained winds, triggering hurricane warnings and watches for the northeastern Caribbean.

Oscar formed as a tropical storm just east of Turks and Caicos on Saturday morning, the 15th named storm of ...Read more