Storms are the engines that create swell. When a powerful low-pressure system starts spinning off the coastline of any part ...

Oceanographers have been able to document the movement of ocean waters to indicate things like currents, weather, and more.

La Niña continues as one of the leading playwrights of U.S. weather this winter, helping guide the jet stream and contributing to polar disruptions.

Those numbers align closely with the Atlantic’s 30-year average and mirror TSR’s early forecast for the 2025 season, suggesting no immediate signs of an unusually quiet or hyperactive year, at least ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is sending its famed reconnaissance aircraft into a powerful storm system that threatens widespread flooding and damaging winds for Western ...

Hurricane Melissa caused at least 75 deaths and over $4 billion in insured losses. Rising ocean temperatures, caused by the greenhouse effect, are fueling more powerful hurricanes. Some scientists ...

Multiple agencies launched a robust rescue effort in Monterey County after a young family was swept into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, leaving a father dead and a 5-year-old girl missing. The Monterey ...

They’re all the same — officially, tropical cyclones. But they get different names in different parts of the world. Hurricane is used in the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, central and northeast Pacific.

Hurricane season began June 1 and ends Nov. 30, and so far this year there have been 13 named storms, beginning with Tropical Storm Andrea in June and, most recently, Hurricane Melissa, according to ...

The water around Jamaica had been simmering all summer. By the time Hurricane Melissa roared ashore Tuesday, that uber-warm Caribbean Sea had helped turn it into a monster: a Category 5 storm with ...