July is a unique month in the Atlantic hurricane season. It can be a forgiving month for the U.S., a month when storms begin to form farther away, temporarily lessening the risk closer to home.

Hurricane Erick lashed communities along the southwestern coast of Mexico on Thursday with destructive wind and torrential ...

Storm surge is the deadliest and most destructive force in tropical cyclones, often responsible for the majority of ...

June 20th is the average date of the first named storm of the season over the Atlantic, but there are no areas of concern at ...

While the Pacific hurricane season is running about a month ahead of schedule, the Atlantic basin is off to a slow start.

No major hurricane on record had struck before August on the Pacific coast of Mexico until Erick did so on this mid-June Thursday as a category 3, after peaking as a 145 mile-per-hour (mph) category 4 ...

Powerful Hurricane Erick made landfall in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca early Thursday as a major hurricane before moving ...

Hurricane Erick made landfall in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca early Thursday as a major hurricane before moving inland ...

The system is expected to generate severely destructive winds as the core makes landfall in Mexico on Thursday.

This is the earliest fifth-named storm since July of 1956. The average date for the fifth-named storm is July 23.

A cluster of thunderstorms in the eastern Pacific has put the National Hurricane Center on notice, as the region is now in full swing this hurricane season.