Tropical Storm Melissa is the 13th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. That may be a surprising fact for many readers. Most of those storms have not impacted the U.S. mainland or made ...

Developed in response to a warming world, NOAA’s revised scale more precisely identifies which episodes are likely to have ...

As the 183-day Atlantic hurricane season approaches its end in November, the odds of being struck by a tropical system often fade well before the calendar says the season is over. According to ...

We rarely see tropical activity in February, but it happened once, 74 years ago ion Groundhog Day. Here's what happened.