Andrea is the first storm name for the 2025 hurricane season, which consists of 20 other names picked years in advance by an ...

After operating out of a temporary animal shelter for almost 20 years, the Sulphur Animal Shelter now has a brand new home.

Wherever the eyewall passes over land, that is where the most destruction occurs. Typhoon Rita formed on October 17, 1978, and lasted until October 29. It impacted Guam, the Philippines ...

The strongest Gulf hurricane in terms of pressure was Hurricane Rita (2005), which peaked three days before landfall as a Cat. 5 storm with 180 mph winds and set the Gulf pressure record at 895 ...

NASA/UL Lafayette hosts free June 5-6 workshop on disaster response, geospatial data, and lessons learned from Hurricanes ...

Its staggeringly low minimum pressure of 895 mb ranked fourth-lowest on record, tying 2005’s Hurricane Rita. It boiled with tornadoes, 45 in all. And from its earliest embryonic stirrings in the ...

Rita had begun as a tropical storm in the central Bahamas and later intensified into a Category 5 hurricane with winds as strong as 180 mph in the Gulf of Mexico, thanks to the exceptionally warm ...

Behind Hurricane Rita in 2005, Milton was the second-most intense storm ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico. The hurricane caused 35 deaths across the United States and 3 in Mexico, with Florida ...