Early April 30, the National Hurricane Center's tropical outlook map showed a hurricane in the Gulf. The map actually showed Hurricane Melissa from October 2025. The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season ...

Like Beryl and Ernesto earlier in the summer, Francine began as a tropical wave of low pressure in the Main Development Region, a stretch of the tropical Atlantic where most hurricanes are spawned. In ...

For 10 days in late September into early October, the western Caribbean Sea and the southern Gulf of Mexico was a hotbed for tropical activity. Finally, on Oct. 5 a tropical depression emerged in the ...

The Loop Current often bulges out in the northern Gulf of Mexico, where it sometimes sheds a clockwise-rotating ring of warm ...