Going into the 2025 season, NOAA’s outlook calls for 13-19 named storms, 6-10 hurricanes with 3-5 major hurricanes. A major hurricane is a tropical system with sustained winds of 111 mph or higher.

Forecasting storms and preparing the public requires coordination among labs, researchers, meteorologists, emergency managers and local officials.

If some of this year’s names seem familiar, it’s because each year’s names are decided six years out by an international ...

The Gulf of Mexico coastline transformed into a bullseye for major storms, which have taken aim from Corpus Christi, Texas, ...

The list of 2025 Atlantic hurricane storm names has only one new name since the list was last used six years ago. The World ...

There are 26 letters in the alphabet but only 21 are set aside each year for potential tropical storm and hurricane names in areas tracked by the National Hurricane Center. The names for the 2025 ...

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is used to rank hurricanes based on their sustained wind speeds. While the category ...

A new report examines the growing financial and social costs of increasing hurricane risk, with special attention to areas of ...

What she didn’t know was that it would all happen again just two weeks later, when Hurricane Milton made landfall on Siesta ...

When a hurricane causes extreme damage or loss of life, its name is retired from future use out of respect and to avoid ...

Tropical systems tracked by the National Hurricane Center will be classified as depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes ...

As new buildings go up along the flood-prone Gulf coast at 15 to 20 feet off the ground, the future of Florida's ...