Hurricane season

The dog was found tied to a fence off the highway on Wednesday as millions evacuate their homes before the storm makes landfall.

Hundreds of flights have been canceled as Hurricane Milton barrels towards Florida. NBC Chicago’s Christian Farr reports.

NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters have captured rare, dramatic footage from inside the storm, battling intense turbulence as they gather critical data.

Hurricane Milton is bearing down on Florida’s coast this week, threatening to hammer areas of the state that were left with serious damage after Hurricane Helene just weeks ago.

Not even two weeks after Hurricane Helene swamped the Florida coastline, Milton strengthened into a major hurricane that is headed toward the state, and near the same Big Bend area that just got hit.

According to the National Hurricane Center’s Live Hurricane Tracker, Hurricane Milton is set to make landfall on Florida’s west coast late Wednesday.

Not even two weeks after Hurricane Helene swamped the Florida coastline, Milton strengthened into a major hurricane that is headed toward the state, and near the same Big Bend area that just got hit.

Hurricane Milton, currently a Category 4, could make landfall in Florida as either a Category 3 or Category 4 storm, models show. Here’s the expected path and timeline.

Gov. Ron DeSantis made a late appeal for residents to flee for shelter with a potentially historic storm expected to make landfall on Wednesday.

Hurricane Milton rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm on Monday, and it’s nearing historic territory among the strongest storms of all time.

After rapidly intensifying into a Category 5 storm, Hurricane Milton is slowly churning toward the Florida peninsula, with life-threatening storm surges and ferocious winds expected in coming days.

The Saffir-Simpson scale is used to measure the speed of hurricanes. Why does it stop at Category 5?

Milton became a hurricane this Sunday. It is expected to arrive near Tampa on Wednesday as at least a Category 3, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

Tropical storm Milton is strengthening over the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to become a hurricane and slam into the west coast of Florida.

A tropical depression has formed over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Saturday. 

In the midst of the devastating destruction left by the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland U.S. since Katrina, human connections are giving the survivors hope in western North Carolina.

Tennessee state authorities are investigating the company that owns a plastics factory where 11 workers were swept away by cataclysmic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Helene.

President Joe Biden surveyed the devastation in North and South Carolina on Wednesday as rescuers continued their search for anyone still unaccounted for after Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic damage across the Southeast and killed at least 183 people.

Exhausted emergency crews worked around the clock to clear roads, restore power and phone service, and reach those still stranded by the storm, which killed at least 134 people in six states.

In western North Carolina, where more than 40 people have died, some residents say the government was unprepared for the storm.