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MIAMI — Hurricane Epsilon has strengthened into a powerful Category 2 hurricane with 110 mph winds, according to an update from the National Hurricane Center.

Forecasters said the storm saw some rapid intensification overnight that continued through Wednesday.

"It is possible that Epsilon could strengthen a little more and become a major ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Tropical Storm Epsilon, the earliest 26th-named storm on record in the Atlantic, continues strengthening in the central Atlantic Ocean, according to Tuesday's 5 p.m. advisory.

The National Hurricane Center said Epsilon's structure "greatly improved" Tuesday afternoon and there are even hints of an eyelike feature ...Read more

LOS ANGELES - The forecast looks warm and continued dry this winter in California and the Southwest, which raises the disturbing prospect of a perpetual fire season.

More than 45% of the continental U.S. is experiencing drought right now, especially in the West. With a La Nina climate pattern well-established and expected to persist, the ...Read more

On the day after Hurricane Delta cut its ruinous path across southern Louisiana, Dick Frerks pointed to a lone 20-foot pylon rising from the bayou and summed up what he'd lost.

"Our house used to be on top of that," said Frerks, who makes his living hauling shrimp and crab from the Gulf of Mexico and lives outside the town of Cameron.

Now ...Read more

MIAMI - As the tail end of one of the most active hurricane seasons in history nears, Miami-Dade County appears once again poised to emerge unscathed. The region dodged hurricanes and tropical storms that posed a potential threat to South Florida. But what will happen when that luck runs out?

Housing advocates have long feared that the city is ...Read more

The state of Louisiana reported its first Hurricane Delta-related death Sunday as 348,000 remained without power after the storm battered the state on Friday and Saturday.

Gov. John Bel Edwards said an 86-year-old was killed in a fire after trying to refill a gas-powered generator, according to the Monroe News Star.

"I want to remind everyone ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA - When Hurricane Delta smashed ashore along the Louisiana coast at 6 p.m. Friday it became the 10th tropical storm to make landfall in the United States in 2020, breaking a record that had survived more than a century.

It was the seventh storm to land on the Gulf shores, which have been a tropical-storm punching bag in this ultra-...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Hurricane Delta, a major Category 3 storm with 120 mph winds, was approaching the Louisiana coast Friday morning with a danger of life-threatening flooding, according to the 8 a.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center.

Louisiana prepares for Delta as its forecast to slam into the state with slightly diminished ...Read more

With months left in 2020, the United States has already tied a record for the most billion-dollar natural disasters.

So far, the country has had more than a dozen climate and weather catastrophes that cost at least $1 billion in damages, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

"The first 9 months of 2020 ties the ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Hurricane Delta strengthened as it moved across the central Gulf of Mexico and is expected to barrel ashore Friday along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Louisiana is bracing for heavy rain and a life-threatening storm surge of up to 11 feet, forecasters say.

Delta could briefly become a Category 3 hurricane, forecasters said, but ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Hurricane Delta has stabilized as a Category 2 storm and its track has drifted a bit to the west, excluding New Orleans and including parts of Texas, according to the National Hurricane Center's 2 p.m. advisory. But Delta is expected to regain strength and is still projected to affect Louisiana more than any other state ...Read more

Mexican residents and tourists were hunkered down Wednesday morning as Category 2 Hurricane Delta rips into the Yucatan peninsula.

Delta made landfall around 5:30 a.m. on the peninsula's shores near Puerto Morelos, Mexico, just 35 miles west of Cancun while maintaining a forward speed of 17 mph, the National Hurricane Center showed in a special...Read more

MIAMI - Tropical Storm Delta has formed, and it "is expected to be a hurricane when it moves near or over western Cuba" Tuesday night, the National Hurricane Center said.

Delta is set to strengthen to a Category 2 in the Gulf of Mexico later this week, and is on track to be the third hurricane of the season to approach the Gulf Coast.

The ...Read more