Hurricane Sam is a powerful Category 4 storm in the Atlantic but it poses no threat to land as it loops northward in the Atlantic

Hurricane Sam has strengthened to a Category 2 storm Friday night and is expected to become a major hurricane Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Service. Hurricane Sam had maximum sustained winds of 100 mph as it moved west-northwest at 12 mph over 1,200 miles east-southeast of the northern Leeward Islands, according to the latest NHC ad...

The latest developed system of the 2021 hurricane season could become the year’s next major hurricane, according to forecasters at the National Hurricane Center. Tropical Storm Sam formed Thursday and has winds of 70 mph. It’s located 1,560 miles east-southeast of the northern Leeward Islands and is moving west at 15 mph, according to the NHC...

Tropical Depression 18 has formed Wednesday in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, while Peter degenerated into a remnant low and Rose is on its last legs. Tropical Depression 18 has winds of 35 mph and is located under 2,000 miles east-southeast of the northern Leeward Islands, according to the National Hurricane Center’s latest advisory. It’s...

Both Rose and Peter have weakened to tropical depressions late Tuesday, with neither system expected to impact the United States. The National Hurricane Center’s latest advisory has Peter with winds of 35 mph just northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Peter is expected to make an eventual turn to the north and drift away from land before dying out. R...

An already active 2021 hurricane season has produced two more named systems over the weekend, but neither is forecast to pose a threat to South Florida or the United States. Tropical Storm Peter has winds of 50 mph and is located 150 miles northeast of the northern Leeward Islands, according to the National Hurricane Center’s latest advisory....

Forecasters said Tropical Storm Peter formed over the Atlantic Ocean early Sunday, and a new tropical depression was spinning over the far eastern Atlantic.

A tropical depression has formed about 670 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands. The depression has maximum sustained winds of 35 mph with higher gusts. The National Hurricane Center forecasts that it will become a tropical storm by Sunday and could pass the north of the northern Leeward Islands by Monday or Tuesday. There are no coastal watc...

While Tropical Storm Odette moves off the coast of the northeast United States, two more potential named systems could form in the coming days. The National Hurricane Center reports a low-pressure system is producing showers and thunderstorms and appears to be more organized. A 90 percent chance of development is forecast over the next 48 hours as ...

Forecasters continue to monitor as many as three potential systems in the Atlantic during an already busy 2021 hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center reports the closest area to the United States sits northeast of the central Bahamas and is producing a large area of unorganized showers and storms. A 70 percent chance of development is fore...

As many as three named tropical systems could form in the coming days in what has lived up to the hype of an active 2021 hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center reports the closest area to the United States sits hundreds of miles northeast of the central Bahamas and is producing a large area of unorganized showers and storms. A…...

An already active 2021 hurricane season could have two more named systems by the end of the week with neither one expected to impact South Florida at this time. The National Hurricane Center says an area of low pressure located north of the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico is expected to form by midweek as it moves north-northwest. The area&#8230...

Tropical Storm Nicholas was approaching Texas’ Gulf court Monday, while forecasters were keeping an eye on two other developing systems in the Atlantic. Nicholas was expected to be a strong tropical storm or even possibly a hurricane as it approached Texas Monday evening, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Flash flooding, da...

Tropical depression Mindy has dumped rain along the Georgia and South Carolina seacoasts during its trek over land and is now moving well offshore into the Atlantic Ocean

A swath of the Florida Panhandle was under a tropical storm warning after Tropical Storm Mindy made landfall Wednesday night. The storm touched down over St. Vincent Island, about 10 miles (15 km) west southwest of Apalachicola, according to the National Hurricane Center. Mindy could cause as much as 6 inches (15 centimeters) of rainfall across the...

The next major hurricane of the 2021 season in the Atlantic could be upgraded as soon as Friday with Hurricane Larry, but forecasters say South Florida and most of the United States have nothing to fear. The National Hurricane Center says Larry has winds of 90 miles per hour as it sits nearly 1,000 miles west of the southernmost Cabo…

The latest hurricane of the 2021 season formed Thursday morning in the Atlantic but is not forecast to have any impact on South Florida and possibly the United States. The National Hurricane Center reported Hurricane Larry has winds of 80 miles per hour as it sits hundreds of miles west of the southernmost Cabo Verde Islands. Larry is moving to&#82...

Hurricane Ida was among the most powerful hurricanes to slam southeast Louisiana in modern times. It was a test of the $15 billion that were spent fortifying levees, creating flood walls and adding a massive pump station in the area in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Ida made landfall 16 years to the day after Katrina.  “They took&...

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has ordered a mandatory evacuation for a small area of the city outside the levee system

Tropical Storm Ida has formed Thursday and is expected to strengthen to a hurricane by this weekend. The National Hurricane Center said Ida has winds of 40 mph and is located 65 miles southeast of Grand Cayman and 365 miles southeast of the western tip of Cuba. It is moving to the northwest at 12 mph. Ida is forecast to…

Nearly three decades later, the memories remain just as vivid for those who survived the destruction when Hurricane Andrew ripped through southern Miami-Dade County.

While Tuesday marks the 29th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew’s deadly and costly impact on South Florida, three potential systems are being watched in the Atlantic and Caribbean that are not forecast to impact Florida or the United States. The National Hurricane Center reports a tropical wave over the eastern Caribbean Sea could gradually develop a...

Hurricane Grace struck Mexico’s Caribbean coast just south of the ancient Mayan temples of Tulum on Thursday, tearing the roofs off some homes, knocking out power to thousands and keeping tourists off white sand beaches as it crossed the Yucatan Peninsula. The push across land weakened the storm, but by evening it was centered back over water...

Tropical Depression Fred has blown into the northeastern U.S. as a post-tropical cyclone, unleashing heavy rains and threatening mudslides and flash floods in upstate New York

Tropical Depression Fred has weakened to a depression and spawned several apparent tornadoes in Georgia as it dumps heavy rains into the Appalachian mountains

Tropical Storm Fred has made landfall Monday, bringing dangerous storm surge and flooding rains to the eastern Florida Panhandle, as Tropical Depression Grace drenched earthquake-damaged Haiti. Additionally, a third tropical system was swirling around Bermuda.

The National Hurricane Center said Fred regained its tropical storm status in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday just hours before Grace was demoted to a tropical depression. Fred was forecast to move across the Gulf before reaching the coast Monday night or Tuesday morning, forecasters said. They said people from Alabama to the central Florida Panhan...

Forecasters said they believed Fred would regenerate into a tropical storm on Sunday and urged people along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico from Alabama to the central Florida Panhandle to monitor the storm’s progress.

Tropical Storm Grace formed Saturday morning in the Atlantic Ocean and grew stronger, while Fred weakened into a tropical wave as it headed into the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Both systems were expected to bring heavy rain and flooding. Fred, which was once a tropical storm, could regain such strength on Sunday, according to the U.S. National Hurrican...

Remnants of Fred entered the lower Gulf of Mexico late Saturday amid forecasts it would regain tropical cyclone strength Sunday as it moves toward the northern U.S. Gulf Coast. Forecasters said the disorganized remnants of former Tropical Storm Fred passed by the Florida Keys on Saturday and then moved into the southeast Gulf of Mexico later in the...

Tropical Depression Fred was moving along Cuba’s northern coast and could regain tropical storm status as it pulls away from the island on Friday, ahead of its projected track towards the Florida Keys on Saturday and southwest Florida on Sunday, forecasters said. Meanwhile, still east of the Caribbean Sea, forecasters were watching another tr...

Fred, currently a tropical depression, became the sixth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. The system moved past the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on a forecast track that would carry it toward Florida over the weekend. Watch the player above for the latest satellite images and advisories from the NBC 6 First Alert weather team.&nb...

A tropical storm watch was issued for the Florida Keys and southwest Florida as Tropical Depression Fred continued moving through the waters of the Caribbean north of Cuba Thursday. The main threat to the U.S. appeared to be heavy rains affecting Florida and parts of the Southeast starting on Friday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center....

Nearly five inches of rain could fall with mudslides being a potential risk.

Tropical Storm Fred has developed late Tuesday and is expected to bring heavy rain and gusty winds to Puerto Rico. The latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center has Fred with winds of 40 mph about 45 miles southwest of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The potential system was moving to the west at 17 mph. A tropical storm warning remained in…...

All eyes are on a wave in the Atlantic Ocean that could become the next named system of the 2021 hurricane season. The system was located about 40 miles east-northeast of Dominica Monday with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and was expected to become a tropical storm overnight Monday into Tuesday according to the National Hurricane Center in Miam...

The first week of August has forecasters at the National Hurricane Center watching two potential systems in the Atlantic that could be named in the coming days. NHC forecasts for the tropical wave closest to the United States has the disorganized group of showers and thunderstorms moving to the northwest with development possible as it moves closer...

One day after the forecast for the 2021 hurricane season was modified for the possibility of more activity, two possible named systems in the Atlantic could form within the next week. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the first tropical wave, located in the central Atlantic Ocean, continues to produce a broad area of showers and storms as...

Already in the 2021 season, five named systems have formed with Hurricane Elsa being the earliest fifth named storm on record.

Tropical Storm Elsa is carving a destructive and soaking path up the East Coast after killing at least one person in Florida and spinning up a tornado at a Georgia Navy base that flipped recreational vehicles upside-down and blew one of them into a lake

Elsa was downgraded to tropical storm status ahead of an expected landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast by Wednesday morning.

Tropical Storm Elsa — though now over water — is still producing heavy rain over Cuba and is expected to near the lower Florida Keys by early Tuesday, forecasters said. Elsa had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph as it moved north-northwest at 12 mph about 20 miles north-northwest of Havana, Cuba, and 80 miles south-southwest of Key West...

Ahead of the potential impacts from Tropical Storm Elsa, Monroe County is advising residents to be prepared. The county issued a state of emergency order Saturday and was one of 15 counties in the state of Florida under a state of emergency issued by Gov. Ron DeSantis, allowing for whatever assistance is needed both before, during and after the sto...

Tropical Storm Elsa strengthened late Sunday and is expected to make landfall in Cuba on Monday before it nears the Florida Keys. The 11 p.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center has Elsa’s winds at 65 mph. It is located about 165 miles west of Cayo Largo, Cuba, and heading northwest at 15 mph. Miami-Dade and Broward counties are out…...

Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a state of emergency for several Florida counties including Miami-Dade and Monroe in preparation for Tropical Storm Elsa, which brushed past Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Saturday and threatened to unleash flooding and landslides before taking aim at Cuba and Florida. The National Hurricane Center Saturday evening iss...

Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for several Florida counties because of Tropical Storm Elsa Saturday, as the system was taking aim at the Sunshine State. The counties affected by the state of emergency include: Miami-Dade, Monroe, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lee, Levy, Manatee, Pasco, Pine...

Officials across South Florida are preparing for the potential impact from what is now Tropical Storm Elsa as it moves toward the area early next week. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava signed a local state of emergency Saturday, allowing the county to mobilize resources if needed. “There still is a lot of uncertainty about the path, but ...

Elsa was downgraded to a tropical storm before it was expected to make landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday Watch the player above for the latest satellite images and advisories from the NBC 6 First Alert weather team. For more on Tropical Storm Elsa, click here.

Even while in the “dirty side” of the storm — we could escape the worse effects of Elsa. But there’s still a lot of uncertainty.

Elsa strengthened into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season on Friday as it battered the eastern Caribbean, where officials closed schools, businesses and airports under the threat of flash flooding and landslides.

Tropical Storm Elsa strengthened slightly Thursday night as it moved quickly towards the Caribbean. Elsa had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph as it moved west-northwest at 26 mph about 260 miles east-southeast of Barbados, according to the 11 p.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Tropical storm warnings were in place for Barba...

Tropical Depression Five has formed over the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to become a tropical storm by Thursday, as South Florida was in the system’s cone of concern.

Two potential systems could form in the Atlantic Ocean in the coming days. The National Hurricane Center said the tropical wave is located over 850 miles east of the Lesser Antilles with some slow development possible as it moves to the west and northwest over the next five days. Showers and thunderstorms are associated with the wave, which has a&#...

Tropical Storm Danny weakened to a tropical depression hours after it made landfall Monday evening on South Carolina’s coast but the system continued to dump heavy rains on the state and portions of Georgia.

High winds and heavy rains are striking coastal Louisiana and Mississippi as a disorganized and unpredictable tropical weather system churns through the Gulf of Mexico

Potential Tropical Cyclone Three remains “poorly organized” Thursday night as it moves over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico and is expected to bring heavy rainfall and flooding.

While the second named system of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season has dissipated, forecasters were watching what could become the third named system in a matter of days. The National Hurricane Center said Wednesday that a disorganized group of showers and thunderstorms over the Bay of Campeche and southern Mexico could organize in the coming days...

Coastal communities often depend on natural barriers, like mangroves and coral reefs, to aid in flood reduction during tropical threats like hurricanes. In South Florida alone, reefs are worth an estimated 650 million dollars a year in avoided damages due to flooding. As climate change intensifies, these impacts on coastal communities worsen. The s...

A family vacation to South Florida, right before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, turned into a long-term stay for married couple Shane and Alena. “So, when we were down here, we decided to extend our stay to three months, because the pandemic hit and we were working remotely anyways,” said Shane. It didn’t take long before...

We know that climate change is making hurricanes wetter and stronger and making them intensify faster while moving more slowly. But what about the relationship between climate change and the number of storms each season?

Hurricane season starts June 1st so it’s important to stock up on all the essential items necessary to stay safe during a storm. The last three years have seen four hurricanes make landfall in Florida and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting an “above-normal” 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, with...

It’s pretty safe to say that this year’s hurricane season won’t be like 2020 – a record-breaking year in the Atlantic which yielded 30 named tropical systems. The ingredients that combined to produce such a prolific hurricane season are not present this time, according to distinguished professor of Atmospheric Science and director...

The Beacon Council projects that the total population of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, which is around six million now, will climb close to seven million people by 2025. The population has advanced during the COVID-19 pandemic with a series of relocations to Florida, where thousands who have likely not experienced a threat during hur...

It’s that time of the year many Floridians are usually worried about: the six-month hurricane season that has forecasters hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst. The annual event began Tuesday and runs through November 30th, but has already seen the first named storm of the year form less than two weeks ago. Subtropical Storm Ana fo...

Another disturbance has formed Thursday, this time over the western Gulf of Mexico, and it could produce heavy rainfall over parts of Texas and Louisiana in the coming days, regardless of development.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an “above-normal” 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, with 13-20 named storms expected. Of those named storms, six to ten are expected to be hurricanes and three to five could be major hurricanes, according to acting NOAA administrator Ben Friedman, who delivered the outlook ...

A system in the Atlantic Ocean has a much better chance of becoming the first named storm of the 2021 hurricane season by this weekend – but South Florida and the United States are still not in the forecast to be impacted. The National Hurricane Center said in an advisory the low-pressure system is about 600 miles east-southeast of Bermuda…...

With less than two weeks to go before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season, the first potential system of 2021 could be developing in the Atlantic Ocean. The National Hurricane Center said Wednesday that they’re monitoring a low-pressure system that was hundreds of miles northeast of Bermuda. The system had a 40 percent chance ...

The city of Miami Gardens is hosting a drive-thru hurricane supply giveaway for residents at the start of the 2021 Atlantic season.

Harvey. Irma. Maria. Florence. Michael. Dorian. Laura. Iota. These names are seared into our memories. Each one seeming to do something never before seen. And each one happening within the last five years. There is now overwhelming evidence that a warmer planet means worse hurricanes. Last year, NOAA Atmospheric Scientist Jim Kossin was part o...

Storm surge occurs when ocean water gets pushed onto shore by a tropical storm or hurricane. County officials make evacuation decisions based on a hurricane’s track and projected storm surge, so it’s important to know which zone you live in before a storm hits.

Hurricane Dorian made landfall nearly two years ago and the scars are still visible across the Abacos.

Researchers are predicting an “above-average” 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, with 17 named storms and eight hurricanes. Of those eight hurricanes, four are expected to be major, according to the Colorado State University Tropical Meteorology Project. Dr. Philip Klotzbach, hurricane specialist at CSU, presented the forecast Thursday dur...

The Atlantic hurricane season seems to be changing and so are some assumptions about it, with meteorologists dumping the Greek alphabet for busy seasons like last year

A new study finds that tropical cyclones around the globe are getting closer to land than previously, except for Atlantic hurricanes

A small group of Florida Keys residents staged a ceremonial burning of hurricane warning flags Monday evening to mark the official end of the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic Basin hurricane season. Following a blast blown on a conch shell, a symbol of the Florida Keys, speakers remembered people recovering from hurricanes that pummeled parts of Centr...

Monday marks the official end of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which proved historic and noteworthy in a variety of ways. Considering that an average hurricane season produces 12 named storms, 2020 produced 30. This was only the second time the Greek alphabet was utilized to complete a season. The storm season of 2005 was the only other seaso...

In what has already been a record setting 2020 hurricane season, two more disturbances could become the next named storms with fewer than two weeks until the season comes to an end. The first system over the far southwest part of the Caribbean Sea has just a 10 percent chance of becoming a named storm over the next five days,…

Powerful Hurricane Iota made landfall on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast late Monday, threatening catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America already battered by equally strong Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago. Iota had intensified into an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm early in the day, but the U.S. National Hurricane Cent...

Tropical Storm Iota formed Friday in the Caribbean and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane as it approaches Central America. Iota was located 350 miles south-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center’s most recent update. The NHC said Iota could bring dangerous win...

Tropical Storm Eta is racing northeastward off the Southeast U.S. seacoast, spreading heavy rain and gusty winds only hours after blustering across north Florida

Tropical Storm Eta does not appear to be done with the state of Florida and is forecast to make a second landfall in the state as early as Thursday.

Cities in South Florida mopped up after Tropical Storm Eta flooded some urban areas with a deluge that swamped entire neighborhoods and filled some homes with water that didn’t drain for hours

Subtropical Storm Theta has formed Monday night over the open Atlantic Ocean, the record-breaking 29th named storm this season.

In Fort Lauderdale just off Interstate 95 and Broward Boulevard, numerous streets were still flooded Monday evening and residents said the water has gotten into some of their homes. Suzie Montero’s family started recording on one of their cell phones when the water started coming in the home Sunday evening. The video showed the family sloshing arou...

Parts of Broward County were dealing with heavy flooding Monday after massive rainfall overnight from Tropical Storm Eta’s landfall in the Florida Keys. Streets look more like canals after Eta rolled in overnight, including one neighborhood in Davie near Flamingo Road and I-595 where NBC 6 cameras saw cars taking the risk of driving through high st...

Torrential rain from Tropical Storm Eta caused dangerous flooding across South Florida’s most densely populated urban areas on Monday after it made landfall in the Florida Keys. Cars were stranded and entire neighborhoods were swamped as flash floods rose in areas where the water had no place to drain. The system’s wide reach and heavy rains ...

A Flash Flood Warning remains for both Broward and Miami-Dade counties as Tropical Storm Eta made landfall and continues to bring heavy rainfall to South Florida. Warnings for Miami-Dade and Broward were extended until 11 a.m. Monday. Eta made landfall at around 11 p.m. Sunday on Lower Matecumbe Key in the upper Florida Keys. Street flooding was re...

Sunday coffee Eta briefing: The dry air from the upper level low has arrived, while wind shear and land interaction impact the storm. The storm is, at least for now, weakening. Tellingly, the Hurricane Watch for South Florida has not been upgraded to a Warning. Models, which have now benefited from two surveillance missions from the G-IV jet sampli...

Tropical Storm Eta, which made landfall in the Keys, brought heavy rain that caused serious flooding, dangerous storm surge, and strong winds that triggered power outages in South Florida. Eta struck Lower Matecumbe Key at around 11 p.m. Sunday with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph. Eta is currently 45 miles north-northwest of Key West and 65 mile...

South Florida counties are prepared with resources, hotlines and evacuation plans in case a storm poses a threat to residents’ safety. Below is a list of important phone numbers and websites that can be used to access county services in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe during a tropical storm or hurricane. Always call 911 in case of...

With the peak of an already overactive hurricane season on the horizon, it’s important to keep up with evacuation plans across South Florida. Both Miami-Dade and Broward counties have created plans that provide information on evacuation zones, routes and even instructions on how to manage the spread of COVID-19 in shelters. As a storm’s path nears ...

Living in South Florida poses the threat of tropical storms and hurricanes, so it’s important to know if your home is located in an evacuation zone.