Houston’s National Weather Service office has lost its head meteorologist amid a federal requirement to cut 10% of NOAA’s staff.

Eleven months ago this week, Hurricane Beryl tore through Houston and Southeast Texas, coming ashore from the Gulf of Mexico with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph near Matagorda. Beryl's landfall date of July 8,

The low-pressure area the NHC has been monitoring off Florida's eastern coast will bring heavy rain to the Carolinas before fizzling out.

Texas ranks near the bottom for storm protection due to lack of statewide building codes, placing homeowners at risk.

Sunday is the official start of Houston's hurricane season and two of the most highly regarded forecasts are both calling for above-average storm activity.

Atlantic hurricanes in June are infrequent overall, but it's even rarer to see a U.S. landfall from one in the month.

Inside the University of Miami's SUSTAIN Laboratory, scientists are creating Category 5 hurricanes on demand in the world's largest hurricane simulator, leading to breakthrough discoveries about deadly storm surge that could revolutionize how coastal cities protect themselves against increasingly powerful storms.

With those disasters in mind, the Federal Emergency Management Agency made a big change to its Local Mitigation Planning Policy Guide in 2023. The agency began encouraging cities, towns and counties to address equity in their hazard mitigation plans, which outline how they will reduce disaster risk.