Inhaling some fuel from the warm Caribbean Sea, Ida strengthened into hurricane late Saturday that is bound for the central Gulf by later this week, where forecasters expect the storm to make a fishhook fairly close to land that would leave it about 170 miles west of Tampa on Thursday. ...more

November 8, 2009

The year's latest tropical depression formed today from an area of low pressure tucked near Central America and is expected to become Tropical Storm Ida, possibly today. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center have watched the thunderstorms in the extreme southwestern Caribbean Sea since the weekend, and the system continued to become more organized. ...more

November 4, 2009

More than a month's worth of rain fell in 12 hours Saturday as Tropical Storm Ketsana slammed the Philippines, killing at least 40 people and stranding thousands on roofs in the capital's worst flooding in more than 42 years. ...more

September 27, 2009

Hurricane Bill weakened slightly early today but still threatened to flood Bermuda's coastlines and generate dangerous waves and riptides along the eastern U.S. coast. ...more

August 21, 2009

Three tropical systems formed this weekend, but none will have much impact on the Bay area. ...more

August 17, 2009

A powerful typhoon toppled houses, flooded villages and forced nearly 1 million people to flee to safety on China's eastern coast before weakening into a tropical storm today. ...more

August 10, 2009

TAMPA Providing further evidence that there is a reason hurricane season doesn't end until Nov. 30, forecasters are watching a tropical disturbance in the Caribbean Sea they say shows potential for development. The area of storms is tucked into the southwest area of the Caribbean, north of Panama. It is in about the only area in the tropics with water temperatures high enough to support tropical system development. ...more

November 24, 2008

Paloma strengthened to a minimal hurricane with winds near 75 mph on Thursday as it churned toward the Cayman Islands and Cuba. ...more

November 7, 2008

For a storm that was expected to barely reach hurricane strength, Hurricane Omar now looks like it could hit Category 2, with winds more than 100 mph, in a few days. It might not be that strong when it gets near Puerto Rico on Thursday, but as it moves northeast into the Atlantic, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center say Omar should muscle up as it heads away from land. ...more

October 15, 2008

What was left of short-lived Tropical Storm Nana has become just a mass of rain in the Atlantic Ocean far from Florida, but forecasters say another tropical depression could form today, this one hugging the coast of Central America. The National Hurricane Center ceased its advisories on Nana, saying the season's 14th storm is now merely an area of low pressure. ...more

October 14, 2008