The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico that could produce heavy rainfall and flooding in Houston.

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 ...

A tropical disturbance moved over the Gulf of Mexico late Wednesday and it’s expected to continue westward, approaching Texas in the coming days.

The National Hurricane Center is now tracking four tropical waves with the development of a new one in the Caribbean.

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

So far in 2025, the Atlantic has seen four named storms: Andrea, Barry, Chantal, and Dexter. The most recent, Tropical Storm ...

Gulf temperatures are slowly on the rise, but it's not doing much to Texas' chances for an active hurricane season. The Gulf ...

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.

“In 2005, we have what is known as the hurricane Trifecta in the Gulf of Mexico,” Shay says. Both Katrina and Rita developed explosively into Category 5 storms after crossing paths with the ...