Storm Watch

People who live in the southern U.S. are used to evacuating when severe hurricanes are headed their way. Yet in the case of 2017’s Hurricane Irma—which was the costliest tropical...

Joel Shannon, USA TODAY Published 6:26 p.m. ET Sept. 10, 2020 CLOSE Hurricane Laura battered western portions of Louisiana, tearing apart structures, severing power lines and clogging streets with debris....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — U.S. researchers who estimated that nearly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria are now investigating deaths that might have...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2020 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that low-income Louisiana residents recovering from Hurricane Laura could be eligible for a helping hand from the...

Tropical Storm Paulette became the 16th named storm of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season on Monday, making it the earliest "P" named storm in recorded history.Forming in the Atlantic on...

Two more deaths in Louisiana have been blamed on Hurricane Laura, which made landfall there last month as a Category 4 storm, bringing the deaths in that state to at...

It wouldn’t be 2020 if the Atlantic didn’t continue setting records less than a week after a Category 4 hurricane made landfall in the United States. Tropical storms Nana and...

Greg Hilburn, Monroe News-Star Published 11:58 p.m. ET Sept. 1, 2020 CLOSE Hurricane Laura battered western portions of Louisiana, tearing apart structures, severing power lines and clogging streets with debris....

When Hurricane Laura hit last week, all I could think about was Katrina. The world considers August 29 the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. For New Orleans residents like myself, that...

The worst storms loom large in the memory. The Great Galveston Hurricane nearly wiped the bustling coastal town off the map in 1900, killing somewhere between 6,000 and 12,000 people....