Hurricane Humberto has intensified into a Category 5 storm in the Atlantic, and a separate storm system is targeting the southeastern U.S.

MIAMI (AP) — Dangerous tropical weather brewed Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean with Humberto intensifying into a powerful Category 4 hurricane and a weather system taking aim at the Southeast U.S.

Category 5 hurricanes occupy the most elite status in the Atlantic Basin. One hundred years of history has shown they have preferred locations and times of year, but there are also outliers, ...

Names are retired if they are so deadly or costly that the future use of the name would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity, NOAA said.

Gradual strengthening into a tropical storm is expected by Sunday as the system runs parallel offshore of Florida's Atlantic coastline. Officials across South Florida, which has been saturated by rain ...

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Between the effects of Humberto and TD 9, coastlines from the U.S. East Coast to The Bahamas, Bermuda, and the north-facing Greater Antillles can expect multiple days of high surf, beach erosion, and ...

Officials across South Florida, which has been saturated by rain throughout September, continue to keep an eye on an unnamed weather system gaining strength in the Caribbean.

By Friday evening, Humberto had become a major Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 145 m.p.h. In cases when a storm forms near shore and then rapidly intensifies, as Otis did near Acapulco, ...

What could have been catastrophic Southeast flooding is now expected to be a few days of rain, wind and big waves from eastern Florida to southern Virginia.