Hurricane Bill Headed for Leeward Islands, Bermuda, US Coast

Hurricane Bill has gained momentum and become a Category 4 storm, the same category as Hurricane Ike, the most destructive storm of that strength in recorded history. The highest strength a cyclone can attain is...

Hurricane Felicia Weakens To Tropical Storm

Hurricane Felicia that peaked as a Category 4 hurricane in the Pacific Ocean last week lost strength and turned into a tropical storm before its scheduled landfall near Hawaii on Sunday. As a precautionary...

Hurricane Carlos Loses Strength, Weakens To Tropical Storm

Hurricane Carlos was downgraded to a category 2 tropical storm as it moves West into the waters of the Pacific Ocean. However, the National Hurricane Centre in Miami claims Carlos could regain strength in the next 48 hours, saying it is a bit of a mystery why the hurricane...

Typhoon Driven Tropical Storm Hits Northeast Coast of Philippines

A tropical storm has battered farmlands on the northeasten coast of the Phillipines.  The typhoon caused a series of landslides in a coastal village in Maganelles killing at least 11 people including two children.  Nine of the 11 bodies were recovered as rescue...

Hurricane Omar weakens to a tropical storm

UPDATE: 2:53PM PST - Saturday October 18Omar is now a Tropical Storm again and poses no more threat to any land." Omar lost hurricane strength on Friday, weakening to a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean and...

Marie weakens into a tropical storm

Maire has weakened into a tropical storm off Mexico's Pacific coast."The Miami-based centre says Marie has maximum sustained winds of 100 kilometres an hour.The storm is barely moving northwest, centred 1,370 kilometres off the southern tip of Baja California.Marie was the...

Tropical storm 'Pablo' threatens Philippines

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) today raised signal no. 1 in the islands of samar and Leyte on eastern Visayas due to the impending bad weather brought...

Evacuate the Coasts - For Good

    Before humans arrived on the scene nearly 100,000 years ago, the earth experienced climatic changes at somewhat regular intervals.  Ice sheets expanded and melted, droughts and floods ravaged...

Tropical Storm Kyle forms south of Bermuda

Tropical Storm Kyle is the 11th storm to form in the Atlantic so far this season. It has formed south of Bermuda.  "The storm formed Thursday and has maximum sustained winds near 45 mph.It's centered centered...

Florida homes evacuated in wake of Fay

Tropical Storm Fay is still causing problems in Florida, where residents have begun to receive evacuation orders. The City of Debary ordered the evacuation of at least 180 homes this afternoon, according to local...

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Tropical Storm EDOUARD Heading This Way

Kinda unsettling when all of a sudden the local newspaper sends a flash email to subscribers at 11:17 P.M CDT that a meek tropical storm (39-73 mph) has turned into a hurricane watch here along the coast,...

Over 270,000 Evacuated as Severe Tropical Storm Fung-wong Hits China

Update #5: July 29th 0330UTC (11.30am Taiwan/China time)Severe tropical storm Fung-wong slammed into China's Fujian province late last night just south of Fuzhou. Packing sustained winds of 55 knots, gusting up...

Tropical Storm Dolly Heavy Rains in South Texas "Tornadoes Possible"

For the latest ongoing NowPublic coverage please use this link. Dolly has weakened and is now a tropical storm. Heavy rain is falling in southern Texas and there are still fears of flooding. There is the...

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