Storms are the engines that create swell. When a powerful low-pressure system starts spinning off the coastline of any part ...

From deadly floods to billion-dollar wildfires, 2025 made it painfully clear that climate extremes are the new normal.

We’ve learned a lot,” said State Rep. Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, R-Houma, who chairs a House panel on disaster recovery. “We ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency this week said it spent about $11 billion helping people and communities recover from ...

may have ended without any landfalling hurricanes, but 23 weather- and climate-related disasters topped one billion dollars ...

With the calendar turned to December, we now close the book on the thoroughly weird Atlantic hurricane season of 2025. There were 13 named storms, five hurricanes, and four major hurricanes. An ...

The Atlantic hurricane season began June 1 and ends Nov. 30. Although hurricanes are unpredictable, their names are not. In fact, the reason hurricanes have names is much more complicated than ...

We’re taking your questions — like whether Border Patrol is part of ICE and why we name hurricanes — and putting them to the test in this week’s Straight From You. Each week, we take your comments and ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Hurricane Melissa lashed Jamaica with violent winds, destructive storm surge and relentless rainfall this week, coming ashore as one of the strongest hurricanes on Atlantic record.

The parish of St. Elizabeth, called Jamaica's "breadbasket," was "underwater," a government official said, after Melissa made landfall as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds. This liveblog has now ...