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Meteorologists are carefully watching a volatile tropical cyclone situation in the Atlantic Ocean in the coming days that will determine whether the Carolinas will face potentially…

Cúrate, a Spanish tapas restaurant and one of the best-known eateries in Asheville, North Carolina, sat empty for two days after Hurricane Helene last September.Then co-owner…

Deana Lytle felt nervous as she watched her 3-year-old son, Fitz, sit still in the back of the car, observing the pouring rain and falling trees…

September 10, 20253 min readAt the Peak of Hurricane Season, the Atlantic Is Quiet. Here’s WhyHurricane activity in the Atlantic basin is historically at its peak…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.While scientists have gotten much better at predicting where hurricanes will go, there’s still a lot of…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina became one of the deadliest storms ever to hit the U.S. After…

Like many other meteorologists around the U.S. Gulf Coast on the morning of August 26, 2005, Alan Gerard was monitoring the latest computer model forecasts for…

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina drowned New Orleans and notably the city’s low-income Lower Ninth Ward. The flooding killed almost 1,400 people. The levees and…