National Hurricane Center

The Obama administration approved $1.83 billion to help New Jersey recover from the effects of Superstorm Sandy, which six months ago to the day pounded through the state and metropolitan New York City areas, bring flooding, destruction and death....

Here’s the team of hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center, who will guide us through the upcoming storm season with forecasts, advisories and outlooks. From left to right: Robbie Berg, Daniel Brown, Lixion Avila, Dave Roberts, John...

  Despite an infusion of extra funds from Congress, the nation’s cash-strapped weather-forecasting system is about to get pinched on the verge of hurricane season. Federal officials say they have the resources to warn storm-prone Florida and...

WASHINGTON — The nation's cash-strapped weather-forecasting system, though partly spared from federal budget cuts known as "sequestration," is about to get pinched on the verge of a hurricane season expected to be busier than normal. Federal...

While the National Weather Service (NOAA) and National Hurricane Center forecasts won't be released for another month, some forecasters are already getting an early start on forecasting what will happen during the Atlantic hurricane season. Each year,...

An early 2013 hurricane season forecast is calling for a busy summer and fall, with a nearly 50 percent chance of a major storm striking the U.S. East Coast. Forecasters at Colorado State University on Wednesday predicted 18 named storms would form in...

The National Hurricane Center will in the future maintain any necessary hurricane watches or warnings even if a storm is no longer technically a hurricane, as in the case of Superstorm Sandy. Center officials made the changes permanent Friday in light...

Although Superstorm Sandy slammed the Northeast coastline with the force of a hurricane last October, no hurricane warning was issued. That won’t happen again, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday. As of June 1, the center is officially...

You won't notice much difference, but the National Hurricane Center's cone of error has shrunk - again. The center determines the size of the cone by averaging out its forecast track errors over the past five seasons - and in the past five years storm...

Superstorm Sandy earned its name, the National Hurricane Center reported on Tuesday, in a report that says the storm was the deadliest to hit the region in 40 years and the second costliest in the nation’s history. The report summarizes last fall&...

The Eastern Shore town of Bellevue saw the heaviest rains in the U.S. during Superstorm Sandy, according to an official report on the storm the National Hurricane Center released Tuesday. The town, across the Tred Avon River from Oxford and just south...

Most of the time, South Florida's weather radar is up, running and reliable. But some days it falls into a fog. Because it's more than 20 years old, the Doppler weather radar installation in southwest Miami-Dade County unexpectedly breaks down from worn...