Warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico helped Elsa go from a tropical storm to a category 1 hurricane Tuesday night. Elsa is expected to make landfall Wednesday morning.

By the end of the day, Tropical Depression 18 will become Tropical Storm Rafael. It will continue to strengthen in the Caribbean, expected to become our next Hurricane by the middle of this week.

Once the storm moves into the Gulf of Mexico, it will weaken to a Tropical Storm and possibly be wiped out by wind shear before impacting the Gulf Coast Simulated water vapor forecast indicates ...

Halloween may be over, but hurricane season still has a few unsettling tricks left in its final month. Three tropical trouble spots bear watching in the Atlantic basin in the coming days as a ...

A name is given to a subtropical storm, just like a tropical cyclone, but they don’t always become tropical storms or hurricanes. By Judson Jones Judson Jones is a meteorologist and reporter for ...

Tropical Storm Rafael gained hurricane status Tuesday evening as it churned in the warm Caribbean waters on the way to the Cayman Islands and Cuba before heading for the Gulf of Mexico ...

Tropical Storm Rafael slipped by western Jamaica en route to the Cayman Islands and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane Tuesday evening, federal forecasters said. Rafael, which formed ...

The disturbance is being called Potential Tropical Cyclone Eighteen, a designation used by the National Hurricane Center to mark a system that has not yet met the criteria for a tropical ...

A Tropical Storm Warning was issued for Jamaica late Sunday evening as a Caribbean weather system is expected to strengthen Monday into Tropical Storm Rafael. Hurricane conditions are possible in the ...

The tropics are heating up once again. Late Monday afternoon, Tropical Storm Rafael formed over the Caribbean Sea. After starting the day with a ragged, disorganized appearance, Rafael’s ...

Governor Jeff Landry said he credits all of his personnel and the local officials, who had it not been for their professionalism and preparation, the results of this storm could have been much worse.

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP/AP) – Another tropical storm made landfall in Jamaica and could impact the south this week. Tropical Storm Rafael is expected to become a hurricane by the end of Wednesday.