Reporting from the National Hurricane Conference
Click here to see our stories from this week’s National Hurricane Conference in Atlanta: Stormless stretch fuels complacency FEMA chief: Leaders can’t hesitate in face of storm
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Hurricane season already double pace of last year’s near-record season
Posted 4 a.m., Aug, 20, 2011 Has this been a busy hurricane year so far? Most would say no. They’d be wrong. Because no hurricane hit America in 2010, and only one named storm brushed Florida, most...
View Article1928 storm struck 83 years ago today
Posted 10:30 a.m. Sept. 16, 2011 Today marks the 83rd anniversary of the great 1928 hurricane, the most profound single event in the history of Palm Beach County and the second-deadliest natural...
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Does global climate change affect hurricanes?
Posted 4 p.m. Dec. 29, 2011 Christopher Landsea, science and operations specialist for the National Hurricane Center and a scholar of hurricane history, has again weighed in on whether global climate...
View ArticleHurricane Center tweaks 2011 box score
Posted 11:45 a.m., Jan. 26, 2012 It turns out that last year’s raucous hurricane season – which nevertheless eemed quiet to South Floridians because nothing hit them — was just a little more powerful...
View ArticleHurricane director: 7-day forecast wouldn’t always help
Posted 5:30 p.m., March 27, 2012 ORLANDO — A seven-day hurricane forecast is a great thing, and might be on the way, but it doesn’t do any good if a storm comes to life just off the coast and then...
View ArticleHurricane slams GOP Convention! Just a drill.
Posted 10:20 a.m. Friday, May 11, 2012 Every year, Florida runs a statewide hurricane exercise. Organizers like to generate the most challenging scenario they can conjure up. For this year’s...
View ArticleCan one hurricane eat another?
Posted 4 p.m. Friday, July 13, 2012 Can you destroy a hurricane with a cannon? Can you steer a hurricane away? Can a hurricane reach Category 6? It’s not exactly on par with “who was the greatest third...
View ArticleNadine the longest-winded storm? Not close.
Posted 5:45 p.m. Sept. 25, 2012 Nadine’s been floating around the Atlantic Ocean now for two weeks since it was named on Sept. 11. But is it the longest-lived tropical cyclone on record? Not even...
View Article“Sandy” the latest hurricane name retired
Posted 1:10 p.m. April 11, 2013 In a rare move, a storm that no longer was a hurricane when it struck land has received the highest badge of dishonor: its name has been retired. The National Hurricane...
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