How do hurricanes get named? Hurricanes, aka tropical cyclones, are powerful storms that form over warm ocean waters and can cause serious damage. When you hear about the name of a new hurricane on ...

How do hurricanes affect baby names? When a hurricane makes landfall, its effects go beyond the physical devastation and disruption to communities in its path. Storms leave lasting societal imprints ...

Hurricane season began June 1 and ends Nov. 30, and so far this year there have been 13 named storms, beginning with Tropical Storm Andrea in June and, most recently, Hurricane Melissa, according to ...

The World Meteorological Organization has used a rotating list of names for tropical cyclones since 1953. Hurricane names alternate between traditionally masculine and feminine names and are reused ...

Every year, meteorologists prepare a list of 21 names that will be used for storms in the Atlantic hurricane season. The list comes from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), an agency that ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently released its 2023 hurricane outlook, predicting a near-normal season with five to nine hurricanes in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico ...

The first forecast for the 2026 hurricane season suggests tropical activity for the coming year will stick close to the modern average. Tropical Storm Risk this month released its extended range ...