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Next Big Future : Was there global warming in the 1880s? Because 25 hurricanes hit the USA in that decade A total of 293 Atlantic trop...

Images: NOAA/NHC From Discovery News: Sept. 14, 2010 -- The busy Atlantic hurricane season that forecasters called for earlier this year has...

From Wired Science: Hurricane Earl is waning as it moves northward up the east coast of the United States. Some of the first researchers to ...

From CBS News: Earl Heads Uncomfortably Close to Area Relatively Few Hurricanes Tend to Go. (AP) Pushed by an ill-timed trough of low pressu...

Bearing down: NASA'S Global Hawk flies over the eye of Hurricane Earl. Thus far it has made numerous passes over the eye and will contin...

As Hurricane Earl nears the East Coast Thursday, two tropical systems linger behind: Tropical Storm Fiona, located north-northeast of San Ju...

From Live Science: The forecast path of Hurricane Earl, expected to run parallel to the U.S. East Coast before heading offshore, is a typica...

From USA Today: The Atlantic basin is facing a busier-than-usual hurricane season, in part because of record warm water in the ocean, accord...

From National Geographic: As the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end November 30, it will be remembered as one of the quietest in...

Hurricane Rick maintained its furious strength early Sunday after becoming what forecasters described as the second-strongest storm on recor...

Hurricane Jimena was heading west-northwest toward Mexico’s Baja Peninsula on August 30, 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectror...

This rare photo of a rogue wave was taken by first mate Philippe Lijour aboard the supertanker Esso Languedoc, during a storm off Durban in ...

The spiral bands of Hurricane Bill in the Atlantic Ocean fill the view as Expedition 20 crew members on the International Space Station look...

From ABC News: Study Suggests Hurricane Frequency Has Increased Dramatically; Climate Change a Potential Culprit. The people of U.S. Gulf Co...

From BBC: Hurricanes in the Atlantic are more frequent than at any time in the last 1,000 years, according to research just published in th...

(Click Above Image to Enlarge) While NOAA is lowering forecasts, the Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) from FSU COAPS is also quite low. Rya...

El Niño conditions over the Pacific Ocean have so far kept a lid on the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season, experts said in August 2009. But the...

This NOAA satellite image shows Hurricane Ike in 2008. Weather experts on Wednesday reduced the number of projected hurricanes in the north ...

Sterile: The plants are grown in a perfectly controlled environment, uncontaminated by dirt, insects or fresh air From The Daily Mail: They ...

From AP: NEW YORK (AP) — When experts sketch out nightmare hurricane scenarios, a New York strike tends to be high on the list. Besides shak...