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“Confidence in the details of the forecast after 72 hours remains low”, National Hurricane Center said in an update at 5 a.m. Thursday. Its center was about 75 miles southeast of San Salvador Island at 8 a.m. ET, moving at about 5 mph.

On Wednesday evening, a Hurricane Hunters flight found that winds have increased to near 115 mph within the storm, its center located a few hundred miles east of the Bahamas. Its maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour (130 kph) were just above hurricane threshold, but...

Hurricane Joaquin rapidly grew in strength Wednesday night, generating winds at speeds in excess of 111 miles per hour and elevating it to a Category 3 hurricane shortly after the storm had been classified Category 2.

Hurricane Joaquin rapidly grew in strength Wednesday night, generating winds at speeds in excess of 111 miles per hour and elevating it to a Category 3 hurricane shortly after the storm had been classified Category 2.

Joaquin is the third hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season, following Danny and Fred.

The forecast for Joaquin is highly uncertain at the moment, thanks to difficulties the weather models are having in dealing with the evolution of other weather disturbances that will likely affect the storm.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Ida remains poorly organized as it meanders over the central tropical Atlantic. According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, there would be little or no significant changes in the storm’s movements over the next...

Tropical Storm Ida, the ninth named Atlantic storm of 2015, was located about 965 miles east-northeast of the Northern Leeward Islands and was moving east-southeast at 5 mph, according to the 4 a.m. CDT advisory from the National Hurricane Center.

The storm had maximum sustained winds of only 45 miles per hour , and forecasters were actually doubtful it was that strong.

Hurricane season is nearing, and a tropical storm called Ida is gathering steam off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

Further out in the Atlantic – as in much closer to Africa than the United States there are a couple of tropical waves that have a very good chance of becoming tropical storms or hurricanes. The National Hurricane Center’s first advisory on this system indicates 30 MPH...

Most storms move east to west here, but Fred will have the rare opportunity to move northwest, right over the Cape Verde Islands. Hurricane Kilo is now west of Hawaii, but Hurricane Ignacio is approaching the Big Island.

Tropical Storm Claudette formed Monday afternoon off the Virginia coast, making it the third named storm of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season. Dolores is expected to bring rainfall totalling 1 to 3cm along the southwestern coast of Mexico, with isolated amounts of up to 5cm.

The third named storm of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season, Claudette, formed yesterday, Monday July 13, approximately 350 Michigan (560 km) off the coast of Virginia and is tracking northeast over open waters as a tropical storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale...

Tropical Storm Claudette popped up in the far off Atlantic yesterday afternoon and is expected to weaken by tonight to post tropical storm status.