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Tropical Storm Fiona took aim at Bermuda early Friday, about 24 hours ahead of a forecast close encounter with the island nation.

A weakened Hurricane Earl brushed North Carolina's Outer Banks overnight as residents along the Eastern Seaboard braced for a stormy Friday.

Here are the latest developments on Hurricane Earl, set to affect the East Coast beginning Thursday afternoon. The next advisory from the National Hurricane Center is expected at 2 a.m. ET.

The death toll from Typhoon Kompasu, which battered the Korean peninsula with strong winds and heavy rains, rose to five in South Korea, an official said Friday.

Hurricane Earl is powerful Category 4 storm packing 140 mph winds and coastal residents in its path need to take action now, FEMA Administrator ...

Hurricane season is one of the rare times when East Coast waves can reach world-class heights.

As Hurricane Earl approached the U.S. East Coast on Thursday, two other tropical storms were churning in the Atlantic Ocean, with one prompting a tropical storm watch for Bermuda.

There are many misconceptions swirling out there about extreme weather, from hurricanes to lightning and tornadoes. NEWSWEEK debunks some of the most common myths.

Hurricane Earl is forecast to rapidly approach the East Coast on Thursday, bringing unsettled weather to the North Carolina coast.

Hurricane Earl took aim on the Outer Banks of North Carolina early Thursday as the powerful storm prepared to take a swipe at the Eastern Seaboard.

Two days before Labor Day weekend and one day before the anticipated arrival of Hurricane Earl, many tourists were evacuating their North Carolina ...

Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago.

Hurricane Earl is expected to rapidly approach the East Coast on Wednesday, but conditions shouldn't begin to deteriorate along North Carolina's ...

Powerful Hurricane Earl wheeled toward the East Coast, driving tourists Wednesday from North Carolina vacation islands and threatening damaging ...

As Hurricane Earl continues to spin toward the East Coast, authorities in North Carolina are ordering more people to get out of the way.

NASA and NOAA's latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15, has successfully completed five months of on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service. The satellite has demonstrated operational readiness of its subsystems, spacecraft instruments and communications services. GOES-15 is the third and final spacecraft in the GOES N-P Series of geostationary environmental weather satellites.

A new method of predicting solar storms that could help to avoid widespread power and communications blackouts costing billions of pounds has been launched by researchers in the UK.

Just as we grow used to satellite navigation in everyday life, media reports argue that a coming surge in solar activity could render satnav devices useless, perhaps even frying satellites themselves. Is it true? No.

Safety advocates want regulators to make carmakers install warning systems to stop parents from leaving kids in cars, preventing heat deaths. ...

Hurricane and Tropical Storm Watches have been issued along the coast of North Carolina.

A hurricane watch is now in effect for a section of the East Coast of the United States from north of Surf City, North Carolina, to Duck, North Carolina, on the Outer Banks, the National Hurricane Center said on Tuesday. Earl remains a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 135 mph, the center added.

Hundreds of tourists remained stranded in east China on Tuesday, after two tropical storms and a typhoon cut off ferry service, according to a Chinese new agency.

Storms were forecast to continue moving through the northern U.S. on Tuesday, while tropical storm activity remained high in the Atlantic Oc ...

Those planning to go to Atlantic beaches through Labor Day weekend, should check with their local Weather Forecast Office. Swells from Hurricane Earl are moving along the East Coast from South Carolina to New England producing a strong south to north long shore current (Littoral Current). Wind and wave conditions support stronger or more frequent rip currents.

Hurricane Earl, now a powerful Category 4 storm, barreled toward the U.S. coast early Tuesday after battering tiny islands across the northeastern ...

After dealing a glancing blow to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Hurricane Earl was heading back out into the open Atlantic Tuesday, but forecasters warned the large and dangerous storm could have the Carolinas in its sights later this week.

Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained.

Given the impact of climatic extremes on agriculture and health in Spain, researchers have analyzed the two factors most representative of these thermal extremes between 1950 and 2006 - warm days and cold nights. The results for mainland Spain show an increase in the number of warm days greater than that for the rest of the planet and a reduction in the number of cold nights.

So much for a perfect finale to the summer vacation season.

Wildfires scorched about 1,500 acres in western Nebraska and South Dakota before firefighters were able to contain the blazes Saturday, authorities ...