Hurricane Maria went through an astonishingly quick transformation from a minimal hurricane to a Category 5 monster in less than 24 hours. As of 9 p.m. ET, Maria had maximum sustained winds of 160 ...

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ATLANTA — An Atlanta woman who was convicted of defrauding the Federal Management Agency on a contract to help with Hurricane ...

Atlantic hurricane names repeat every six years unless one is so deadly or destructive that its name is retired from use for ...

Arian Campo-Flores is an economics reporter for The Wall Street Journal, based in Miami. He mainly covers Florida and the Southeast but also does stories in other parts of the U.S. He regularly writes ...

Another Category 5 hurricane, Maria, pummeled the island 14 days later. And the hits kept on coming for Concordia: ownership changes generated turmoil; COVID stopped plans to rebuild; a previous ...

The 100th meridian marks a dividing line between moist climates to the east and arid climates to the west. Climatologists now ...

Lee County had extensive damage from 1 hurricane in a 54-year period. Now it's 3 in 3 years. How are apartments and modular ...

These hurricanes of 2024 were either so destructive and/or deadly that an international committee retired their names from use in future hurricanes. That's happened many times in the past 70-plus ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico this week, leaving 1.4 million customers without power ...

Last July, Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Matagorda County, becoming the quickest-forming Category 5 hurricane in history ... (AP Photo/Maria Lysaker, File)(Maria Lysaker / AP) To be sure ...

The category four hurricane struck Puerto Rico head ... deliver supplies to residents in the aftermath of Maria in Guayama, on Oct. 5, 2017. | Carlos Giusti/AP “The blame can’t be placed ...