"Rafael is expected to continue to move away from western Cuba over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico," the National Hurricane ...

While landfall in Texas is unlikely, some portions of its coast may see storm surge and coastal flooding ... National ...

A hurricane warning has been issued for this region, where life-threatening storm surge, damaging winds and flooding ...

Hurricane Rafael made landfall in western Cuba Wednesday afternoon after it became a Category 3 hurricane earlier in the day.

Even without a landfall in Florida, the state is expected to feel some impacts from Rafael, starting as early as today.

In Chambers County, Texas ... maps, combined with socioeconomic data, could help focus flood mitigation efforts. More information: Ke Wang et al, Subtle Land Subsidence Elevates Future Storm Surge ...

Rafael continued to intensify and strengthen into a major hurricane on Wednesday afternoon as the late-season storm barreled ...

Tropical Storm Rafael intensified into a Category 3 hurricane on Wednesday, making landfall in western Cuba as it approached the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The result has been the environmental collapse of estuary habitats and the loss of buffer zones that helped protect cities from storm surge ... and Galveston, Texas. Surge barriers are not long ...

its counterclockwise winds had plenty of time to propel a storm surge that battered and flooded the coast before Helene finally made landfall in the Big Bend. Milton arrived nearly as fierce ...

In 1849, meteorologist Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., began plotting daily weather maps ...

Florida has barely recovered from the last two hurricanes that rampaged across the state, destroyed buildings and and left thousands without power.