Hurricane Irma has strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 hurricane as it bears down on the Leeward Islands, and will rake through the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispañola, the Bahamas and Cuba before posing a serious threat to Florida and parts of the Southeast beginning...
Antigua and Barbuda is on hurricane watch. The twin-island state is among other Leeward Islands territories that have been upgraded to a watch as of 5.00 pm yesterday from being under an alert earlier in the day. Irma continues to move toward the islands near 14...
Residents are on alert as a rapidly changing but slow-moving Hurricane Irma heads toward the Leeward Islands with a 70 percent chance of becoming a Category 4 storm by Tuesday. Keithley Meade, director at the meteorological office, said that if residents are not yet making hurricane preparations,...
[caption id="attachment_17756" align="alignleft" width="300"] There will be tours aboard a hurricane hunter aircraft[/caption] The official start to the 2017 hurricane season is fast approaching, and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the US Air Force Reserve will from today host a series of...
Meteorologists with the Colorado State University (CSU) have agreed with predictions that this year’s hurricane season will be less active, but could include at least three major storms. Weather forecasting service AccuWeather has already forecast a below average season. Both predictions based the expected reduced activity on...