HOUSTON, Texas -- Cristobal regained tropical storm strength on Friday after drenching southern Mexico and Central America and is moving toward with U.S. Gulf coast. As of the latest advisory, ...

Two decades after Hurricane Rita struck southwest Louisiana, one of its enduring impacts is how the region prepares for and responds to disasters, having paved the way for stricter building standards ...

Hurricanes are America’s most destructive natural hazards, causing more deaths and property damage than any other type of disaster. Since 1980, these powerful tropical storms have done more than ...

Flooding from both heavy rain and wind-driven storm surge will extend from eastern North Carolina to southern New England into Monday night as a sprawling tropical wind and rainstorm crawls northward ...

To forecast storm surge across a wide area, modelers break up the target area into many small pieces that together form a computational grid or mesh. Picture pixels in an image. The smaller the grid ...

Navid Tahvildari's research on coastal flooding has been funded by NSF, NOAA, NASA, and DOT. Hurricanes are America’s most destructive natural hazards, causing more deaths and property damage than any ...