2023 has been very active in the Atlantic up to this point. In the battle between wind shear boosted by the El Niño phenomenon and the record hot sea surface temperatures, the warm water is winning out by helping produce an inordinate number of storms.

Tropical Depression 15 has formed in the Atlantic and is expected to become Tropical Storm Nigel as early as tonight. 

Hurricane Lee whipped up waves of more than 15 feet on Monday as the Category 3 storm cranked through open waters just north of the Caribbean region.

Irma’s first shocking landfall was on Barbuda with 180mph winds on Sep. 6.

Hurricane Lee charged through warm Atlantic waters on Friday and threatened to unleash heavy swells across the northeast Caribbean. It became the season’s first Category 5 storm before weakening slightly.

Lee indeed is the first Atlantic Cat 5 of 2023, but this hurricane is just one of eight tropical cyclones to attain this ill-famed intensity in the Atlantic over the past eight years.

The very first forecast posted by NHC for Tropical Depression Thirteen, now Hurricane Lee, immediately called for a high-end category 4 hurricane. It is the record most aggressive initial intensity projection from NHC, going back at least to the year 2000.

Hurricane Lee rapidly strengthened to a Category 5 storm Thursday night, with wind speeds doubling in less than 36 hours.

Hurricane Lee became the 2023 season’s first Category 5 storm this week as it barreled through open waters.

Tropical Storm Lee formed in the Atlantic Tuesday and was forecast to rapidly intensify into a dangerous major hurricane over the next week.

A handful of hurricanes and the worst economic downturn of the century in just one year — did the U.S. hit a very unlucky stretch in 1933? NBC6 Hurricane Specialist John Morales says not necessarily.

Forecasters are watching an area in the Atlantic that has a high chance of developing into a tropical system as it approaches the Caribbean over the next week or so.

Florida residents living along Hurricane Idalia’s path of destruction on Friday were still picking through piles of rubble where homes once stood, throwing tarps over ripped-apart roofs and gingerly navigating streets left underwater or clogged with fallen trees and dangerous electric wires.