One study, published in February in the journal Environmental Research Letters, found that a plume of hot freshwater, ...

Recent hurricane seasons have been defined by storms supercharging over the Gulf of Mexico’s warmer-than-normal waters as they barrel toward Florida’s west coast. Experts are hopeful that trend could ...

The Gulf of Mexico is blazing hot, but hurricane season is ominously quiet Storm surge pushes water past wind swept palm trees along the Gulf of Mexico, in Horseshoe Beach, Fla., on Aug. 5 ...

The Gulf Coast storms made up one-third of the 18 named storms seen in the Atlantic season last year, 11 of which became hurricanes. Five of those were major hurricanes.

Hurricane Rafael is swirling over the Gulf of Mexico, where it’s expected to break apart after plowing through Cuba, knocking out its power grid and collapsing homes.

As if on cue, a tropical depression formed in the Gulf of Mexico on the first day of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. No coastal watches or warnings are associated with the system, known as ...

Hurricane Fiona is the strongest hurricane of the Atlantic season, and now forecast models show a developing storm could become a monstrous threat to the US Gulf Coast by next week.

Two decades after wind, surge, and silence crippled the Northshore, the scars remain — but so do the lessons that reshaped ...