• Tropical Storm Arthur crawls closer to North Carolina coast

    Tropical Storm Arthur crawls closer to North Carolina coast

    May 18, 2020 04:30 PM EDT

    MIAMI (AP) — Life-threatening surf and rip currents will spread along U.S. East coast beaches in the days ahead as Tropical Storm Arthur kicks up ocean swells offshore, the National Hurricane Center warned on Monday. It's another early start for the Atlantic hurricane season: Arthur formed Saturday in ...

  • Tropical Storm Arthur forms, 1st named storm of season

    Tropical Storm Arthur forms, 1st named storm of season

    May 17, 2020 05:40 PM EDT

    MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Arthur formed off the coast of Florida on Saturday, making it the sixth straight year for a named storm to develop before the official June 1 start of the Atlantic hurricane season. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami issued a tropical storm warning for ...

  • News Wrap: Tropical Storm Karen soaks U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico

    News Wrap: Tropical Storm Karen soaks U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico

    Sep 24, 2019 10:40 PM EDT

    ... I'm Yamiche Alcindor at the United Nations in New York. William Brangham: Mudslides and power outages hit the U.S. Virgin Islands today, as Tropical Storm Karen arrived. The storm also brought heavy rain to Puerto Rico and winds of 40 miles an hour. Hours earlier, an earthquake shook ...

  • Puerto Rico braces for flooding from Tropical Storm Karen

    Puerto Rico braces for flooding from Tropical Storm Karen

    Sep 24, 2019 11:32 AM EDT

    ... public to remain ever vigilant," U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. said. Karen regained tropical storm strength Tuesday morning after having been a tropical depression. Its maximum sustained winds increased to near 40 mph (65 kph) with additional strengthening expected. The storm was centered about 110 miles (180 ...

  • Still reeling from Dorian, Bahamas faces tropical storm

    Still reeling from Dorian, Bahamas faces tropical storm

    Sep 14, 2019 03:51 PM EDT

    ... 1 to 2 inches of rain. The hurricane center said most of the heavy squalls were occurring north and east of the center of the storm, which was passing just east of Abaco. However, government officials in the Bahamas took no chances and urged people in damaged homes to seek ...

  • Still recovering from Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico braces for Tropical Storm Dorian

    Still recovering from Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico braces for Tropical Storm Dorian

    Aug 27, 2019 10:30 PM EDT

    ... to rebuild after Maria. Judy Woodruff: And what about overall? What are the people you talk to saying about, here we go, here's another storm? How concerned are they? Danica Coto: They're very concerned. One person I interviewed this morning said: We're all prepared. We bought our ...

  • Tropical Storm Dorian heads toward Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic

    Tropical Storm Dorian heads toward Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic

    Aug 27, 2019 12:37 PM EDT

    ... weekend. The U.S. National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane watch for Puerto Rico and for the Dominican Republic from Isla Saona to SamanĂ¡ and tropical storm warnings for Martinique and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The center said the storm has maximum sustained winds near 50 miles per hour ...

  • Barbados braces for Tropical Storm Dorian

    Barbados braces for Tropical Storm Dorian

    Aug 26, 2019 06:22 PM EDT

    ... hurricane watch for St. Lucia and a tropical storm warning for Barbados, Martinique, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. It also issued a tropical storm watch for Dominica, Grenada, Saba and St. Eustatius. The storm was expected to dump between 3 to 8 inches (8 to 20 centimeters ...

  • Barry crawls ashore in Louisiana, weakens to tropical storm

    Barry crawls ashore in Louisiana, weakens to tropical storm

    Jul 13, 2019 04:11 PM EDT

    ... yet to arrive. "Although you may not have seen rainfall as we have been discussing, it is coming our way," Cantrell said. Forecasts showed the storm on a path toward Chicago that would swell the Mississippi River basin with water that must eventually flow south again. https://youtu.be/tHj ...

  • Tropical Storm Barry threatens New Orleans with significant rain, surge potential

    Tropical Storm Barry threatens New Orleans with significant rain, surge potential

    Jul 12, 2019 10:50 PM EDT

    ... is so different. I always talk about little wiggles matter. I mean, just 20, 30 miles in either direction could spell a couple feet of storm surge vs. six or seven feet. So, I tell people, be careful comparing storms. They are all different. We spend so much time here ...