NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER

On Wednesday afternoon the National Hurricane Center began watching a disturbance in the east-central Atlantic. There is only a LOW chance for development, and more than likely it will dissipate in the near future.

Measuring hurricane winds from top to bottom are a forecaster's challenge!

Scientists disagree on the necessity of another hurricane category but it makes sense to consider it.

The National Hurricane Center will add inland predictions to its forecast of the location and ferocity of tropical storms.

Breaking news! The hurricane cone is changing

A busy Atlantic hurricane season is now coming to a close.

Tropical development in the Caribbean likely this week

Hurricane Otis has strengthened from a tropical storm to a dangerous Category 5 storm in a matter of hours as it approaches Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, where it is forecast to make landfall near the resort of Acapulco early Wednesday.

Norma has gained a bit of strength after being downgraded to a tropical storm as it moves into mainland Mexico.

Hurricane Norma made landfall near the resorts of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Saturday and has weakened to a tropical storm while moving over land.

Lidia has dissipated after hitting land as a Category 4 hurricane near the resort of Puerto Vallarta.

Lidia has dissipated after hitting land as a Category 4 hurricane near the resort of Puerta Vallarta, where one person was killed by a falling tree and two others were injured.

Nearly a day after being downgraded from a tropical storm, Ophelia is still threatening much of the Northeast with coastal flooding, life-threatening waves and heavy rain from Washington to New York City.

Forecasters in Bermuda are warning of dangerous swells and rip currents as Hurricane Nigel spun through open waters in the northern Atlantic.

Storms are ramping up faster and with greater intensity

Hurricane Lee is charging through warm Atlantic waters and threatening to unleash heavy swells across the northeast Caribbean.

Tropical Storm Lee has strengthened into a hurricane as it churns through the open waters of the Atlantic on a path that would take it near the northeast Caribbean.

In the final hours before Hurricane Idalia struck Florida, experts say its eye experienced a phenomenon that kept it from further intensifying.

The Florida county sheriff where Hurricane Idalia made landfall as a Category 3 storm says so far there have been no reported deaths or serious injuries.

The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Idalia is near the coast of Cuba on a potential track to come ashore as a hurricane in the southern U.S. At 10 p.m. CDT Sunday, the storm was about 145 miles off the western tip of Cuba with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph.

Harold formed in the Gulf of Mexico overnight and was expected to move inland over South Texas by midday Tuesday, forecasters said.

Tropical Storm Hilary has drenched Southern California, swept people into swollen rivers, toppled trees onto homes and flooded roads.

Tropical Storm Hilary is swirling northward just off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.

Hurricane Hilary has strengthened into a major storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast, and it could bring heavy rain to the southwestern U.S. by the weekend.

A new study finds that hurricanes the last few decades killed thousands more people than meteorologists calculate and a disproportionate number were poor, vulnerable and minorities.

Tropical storm and hurricane winds turn wildfires into unstoppable forces

One study suggests the Bahama Islands have always depended on Saharan dust for sustainability.

Forecasters say subtropical storm Don has formed in open Atlantic waters.

Dry weather is expected tonight for the fireworks shows

Tropical Storm Bret has formed in the Atlantic Ocean and could threaten the Caribbean.

It’s time for residents along the southeastern U.S. coastline to get plans in place as the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season gets underway on Thursday.

Anthony Yanez meets with the chief of the Hurricane Specialist Unit

We discuss the questions I get asked the most.

The National Hurricane Center upgraded a subtropical storm from January so, officially, our Atlantic storm season has started!

A subtle reminder that we seem to move quickly from Easter weekend to hurricane season, so, speaking of changes, let’s tackle a couple regarding the upcoming season.

Record high in Houston is 82 degrees from 1951

Record high in Houston is 82 degrees from 1951

Record high in Houston is 82 degrees from 1951

Record high in Houston is 82 degrees from 1951

Record high in Houston is 82 degrees from 1951

Warm, foggy weather seems to be stuck over the area these days and if it reminds you of last December there’s a good reason. Just a year ago we had our warmest December on record!

You probably heard the statistic on Hurricane Nicole being the first hurricane to strike Florida in November in 37 years. In fact, that last particular hurricane, Kate, struck Nov. 21, 1985:

A Florida-bound storm has strengthened into Hurricane Nicole after pounding the Bahamas and state officials ordered evacuations that included former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.

Tropical Storm Nicole is forecast to strengthen to a hurricane as it churns toward the northwestern Bahamas and Florida’s Atlantic coastline.

Hurricane Roslyn is moving off Mexico’s Pacific coast, with forecasters predictng a weekend landfall between the resorts of Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan.

Hurricane Julia hit Nicaragua’s central Caribbean coast and dumped torrential rains across Central America before reemerging over the Pacific as a tropical storm.

Hurricane Orlene has strengthened some while heading for an expected Monday landfall on Mexico’s northwestern Pacific coast.

The U.S. death toll from Hurricane Ian has risen to 17 as Florida authorities confirmed several drownings and other fatalities Friday afternoon.

The National Hurricane Center said Ian could return at or near hurricane strength on Friday when it enters the Atlantic Ocean toward South Carolina and North Carolina.

Hurricane Ian has regained some strength after exiting Florida and taking aim at South Carolina.

At Bush Intercontinental Airport, there are several flight arrivals from Florida with many Texans leaving the Sunshine State as The National Hurricane Center forecasts show Hurricane Ian hitting the state’s Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Ian is quickly gaining monstrous strength as it moves over oceans partly heated up by climate change, just like 30 other Atlantic tropical storms since 2017 that became much more powerful in less than a day.

Hurricane Ian is now poised to cross Cuba likely becoming a major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and making landfall in Florida later this week. Here’s the current National Hurricane Center forecast:

Authorities and residents in Florida are keeping a cautious eye on Tropical Storm Ian as it rumbles through the Caribbean.

More than a half million people in Puerto Rico remain without water service three days after after Hurricane Fiona slammed the U.S. territory.

Hurricane Fiona is blasting the Turks and Caicos Islands as a Category 3 storm after devastating Puerto Rico, where most people remain without electricity or running water.

A vast swath of western Alaska could see flooding and high winds as the remnants of Typhoon Merbok move toward the Bering Sea region.

Tropical Storm Danielle has strengthened into a hurricane - the first of an unusually quiet storm season.

The Atlantic hurricane season has been oddly quiet.

For a week now, we’ve been watching the potential of a Caribbean cloud or two to develop into a monster Gulf hurricane--one that by the American model threatened anywhere from Destin, Florida to New Orleans to Houston to Corpus and, as of Friday and the weekend, Mexico. Here is the Friday forecast with that big storm moving in just south of Brownsville over Labor Day weekend:

We have a 40% chance of afternoon storms through Sunday

We have a 40% chance of afternoon storms through Sunday

A stormy weather pattern is with us through Friday

A spin of moisture off the Louisiana coast has now caught the attention of the National Hurricane Center and this morning they forecasted a 10% chance of development in the next 48 hours (and the next five days, but it will be onshore by then). Expected to move southwest across the Gulf, the system is most likely to impact the Brownsville to Corpus area although a few showers tomorrow and Sunday could get thrown our way!

Forecast rain totals & intensity have risen, translating to a high flood threat

Tropical Storm Bonnie has hit the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua near the border with Costa Rica.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says a storm that has hurled rain on the southern Caribbean and the northern shoulder of South America is expected to hit Central America as a tropical storm over the weekend and eventually develop into a hurricane over the Pacific.

You’ve heard the rain rumors for this week, but I can tell you now we’re not promising a lot! A weak cold front will be pushing through today and tonight, then meander around the gulf the next few days. Tomorrow, it will be offshore:

This is not supposed to happen this early!

Bermuda has shuttered schools, businesses and government agencies as Tropical Storm Alex brushed past the British overseas territory.

The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season is headed toward Bermuda after killing three people in Cuba and flooding roads in Florida.

Parts of Florida were facing heavy rain and wind as a storm system that battered Mexico moves across the state.

Much of the Florida peninsula, along with parts of Cuba and the Bahamas, are under a tropical storm warning as a system that battered Mexico moves through the Gulf of Mexico, killing at least two in Cuba and bringing threats of heavy rain and wind for the weekend.

On this first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, federal officials are announcing a new initiative to modernize building codes.

Hurricane Agatha has become the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in May in the eastern Pacific as it swept ashore on a sparsely populated stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns in southern Mexico.

The first hurricane of the season has formed off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast and it's rapidly growing stronger ahead of an expected strike along a stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns as a major storm.

Get ready now for tropical storm season 2022....all the forecasts are predicting above normal numbers of hurricanes and the National Hurricane Center (part of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association) came out yesterday with no exception:

KPRC 2 Meteorologist Anthony Yanez spoke with Ken Graham, the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Hurricane Center

When there’s a tropical storm or hurricane moving across the ocean, part of what’s so intimidating about it is that it’s so unpredictable. We really never know where it might make landfall, or how powerful it might be when it does.

Tropical depression Pamela has dissipated in northern Mexico after slamming into the country’s Pacific coast as a hurricane, though forecasters warn that its rainy remnants still pose a flooding threat to parts of Texas and Oklahoma.

Wonderful weather to end the week with changes this weekend!

Hurricane Sam has strengthened again to a powerful Category 4 storm.

Hurricane Sam is a powerful Category 3 storm in the Atlantic but it poses no threat to land as it loops northward in the Atlantic.

Tropical Storm Nicholas has weakened to a tropical depression as it slowed to a crawl over southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana as its heavy rains continued to drench the area, maintaining a flood threat.

Tropical Storm Nicholas has weakened to a tropical depression as it slowed to a crawl over southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana as its heavy rains continued to drench the area, maintaining a flood threat.

All tragedies are just that and there is not a competition among them, but certainly the anniversary of 9/11 overshadows the landfall of Hurricane Carla, which struck Matagorda Bay on Sept. 11, 1961.

A swath of the Florida Panhandle was under a tropical storm warning after Tropical Storm Mindy made landfall Wednesday night.

While Hurricane Ida continues to hammer Louisiana with powerful winds, images of the storm and the destruction are being shared on social media along with warnings for people in Ida’s path to continue to be careful.

Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category 4 storm at 11:55 a.m. with max sustained winds of 150 mph and a minimum central pressure of 930 mb over Port Fourchon, according to the National Hurricane Center

The Red Cross is sending supplies and is ready to help people in Louisiana who are preparing for Hurricane Ida.

Tropical Storm Ida formed early Thursday afternoon in the Western Caribbean, and as of midday Friday, it was projected that the storm would track into the Gulf eventually as a hurricane of at least Category 2 strength.

A strengthening Tropical Storm Nora is rolling toward a possible hurricane brush with Mexico’s Pacific Coast and the Baja California Peninsula over the weekend.

A weakening Henri is now a tropical depression and is churning eastward over New England and back toward the Atlantic Ocean.

Hurricane Grace hit Mexico's Gulf as a major Category 3 storm and moved inland, drenching coastal and inland areas in its second landfall in the country in two days.

Hurricane Grace has rapidly strengthened into a major Category 3 storm as it bears down on a second landfall in Mexico.

Tropical Depression Fred has weakened to a depression and spawned several apparent tornadoes in Georgia as it dumps heavy rains into the Appalachian mountains.

Tropical Depression Grace is drenching Haiti, dumping up to 15 inches of rain on a quake-damaged landscape as thousands of people huddle in fields and search for survivors.

The National Hurricane Center said Fred has regained tropical storm status in the Gulf of Mexico as parts of the Caribbean began seeing impacts from tropical depression Grace.

The death toll from the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that battered Haiti is soaring as rescuers race to find survivors amid the rubble ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching storm.