After blasting across western Cuba as a Cat 3, Rafael emerged into the Gulf of Mexico as a rare November Cat 2.

How rare is it for a hurricane to form or move through the Gulf of Mexico in November? Very rare. Since 1861, only 11 storms ...

and Philadelphia after Hurricane Ida in 2021 and Hurricane Ian in 2022. “It’s not just these extreme events that are becoming more frequent and intensified,” Ahmadisharaf says.

complex systems that can span hundreds of miles as they swirl around the low pressure of the storm's eye. In such a complicated situation, predicting how powerful a hurricane will grow is a ...

* After a Cat. 3 landfall late Wed. 40 miles SW of Havana, Rafael is over the Gulf of Mexico. * “ Mighty Milton ” - Buresh ...

Tropics threats for Jacksonville/NE Florida/SE Georgia: Rafael will move from the Caribbean to the Gulf of Mexico with its ...

Tropics threats for Jacksonville/NE Florida/SE Georgia: Rafael will move from the Caribbean to the Gulf of Mexico with its ...

* There is no named storm aimed at the U.S. through the upcoming weekend into at least early next week. * The Caribbean ...

Three years before Hurricane Helene destroyed North Carolina’s coast, Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana. Torrential rain and winds of up to 150 miles per hour ripped apart coastal towns and ...

Ida, in 2021, and Floyd, in 1999, for example, caused catastrophic flooding in the Philly region. The eye of Hurricane Hazel tracked about 100 miles west of Philadelphia, putting the region on the ...

Vashon has its own ham radio cadre that regularly practices for disasters that could take island communications offline. The Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS), a project of the Vashon-Maury ...