Estimated to cost $7 billion, the Galveston Bay Park Plan is a new storm surge defense plan that aims to protect the Greater ...

Category 4 and Category 5. The larger the storm, the wider its wind field and the greater the potential for damage. A hurricane's wind field also affects its storm surge. The higher the winds ...

Tropical systems are categorized by wind speed, but experts say there's much more to the story when it comes to storm impacts ...

"Storm surge" is defined as the abnormal water level that rises above the typical tide during a tropical event.

The costliest hurricane to impact the U.S. was Hurricane Katrina (2005), which caused an estimated $201.3 billion in damage.

Atlantic Hurricane Season is underway as of June 1. History says odds are against a Category 5 hurricane hitting Florida.

When does a tropical depression become a tropical storm? And when does a tropical storm become a hurricane? What's the ...

His team had bullied into Hurricane Helene’s eye when he noticed on radar that the storm looked like it was dripping ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an above-average Atlantic hurricane season from June 1 ...

Atlantic hurricanes in June are infrequent overall, but it's even rarer to see a U.S. landfall from one in the month.