Remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel hit San Diego County harder than expected before dawn Sunday, sending surf crashing into beachside cottages in Oceanside, flooding parts of Highway 101 near Carlsbad, and triggering several water rescues.

The quick-moving system also knocked out power to more than 330 customers in the Otay Mesa-San Ysidro area,...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Sunday began tracking a system in the distant Atlantic with a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the elongated area of low pressure was centered a few hundred miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands with a large but disorganized ...Read more

More than 440,000 homes and businesses from Pennsylvania to Florida are without power and flood threats are rising at both ends of the country as the U.S. deals with a rare double tropical threat from the remnants of storms Isaias off the Atlantic and Rachel moving into the Southwest from the Pacific.

In the East, there were 441,749 homes and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A coastal flood warning covered beaches from Malibu to San Diego on Saturday as Tropical Storm Rachel moved toward Southern California, while Long Beach kept some oceanfront residents under an evacuation order, and Newport Beach closed piers and temporarily shuttered beaches before a reopening.

“There is growing confidence ...Read more

Downpours spread across the Appalachians and mid-Atlantic as Isaias’ remnants headed north after knocking out power to hundreds of thousands in three states and killing at least four people in Florida and Alabama.

Two people died after trees fell onto their homes Friday night — one in Birmingham, Alabama, according to Jefferson County ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Tropical Storm Rachel brings with it a slew of potential hazards, including damaging coastal flooding.

The National Hurricane Center warned that Rachel could pick up some strength before arriving on the West Coast — an unusual occurrence for storms in the tropical eastern Pacific.

Typically, storms weaken significantly once ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A coastal flood warning covered beaches from Malibu to San Diego on Saturday as Tropical Storm Rachel moved toward Southern California, while Long Beach kept some oceanfront residents under an evacuation order, and Newport Beach closed its beaches and piers.

“For vulnerable south-facing beaches, especially Long Beach and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Newport Beach expected intense surf Friday, but the high tide turned out to be much worse than the estimates.

Water from a massive swell — double the size that was initially predicted — blasted through 20-foot berms erected at the Wedge and washed out roads from about 21st Street to 6th Street, officials said. City crews ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- Hurricane Isaias sliced through the Gulf of Mexico Friday afternoon — hundreds of miles from Tampa Bay — on its way toward the northern Gulf Coast, where it’s hours away from making landfall as a treacherous storm.

Isaias ( pronounced ees-ah-EE-ahs ) is likely to remain a dangerous hurricane at landfall Friday night, and ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- Hurricane Isaias, on a path to become the first Atlantic hurricane to strike the U.S. this year, muscled up to major hurricane strength Friday morning as it churned closer to the Florida Panhandle, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of 11 a.m. Friday, Isaias was about 195 miles south of Pensacola and had sustained ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The blistering heat that has baked Southern California for days is coming to an end, with rain on tap for the weekend and early next week, along with a risk of potentially damaging coastal flooding.

Tropical Storm Rachel, which has been moving northwest across the Pacific Ocean, is expected to make a sharp right turn toward Baja...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- Hurricane Isaias, on a path to become the first Atlantic hurricane to strike the U.S. this year, muscled up to major hurricane strength Friday morning as it churned closer to the Florida Panhandle, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of 8:20 a.m. Friday, Isaias was about 240 miles south of Pensacola and had sustained ...Read more

Like a pot of water on a slow boil, El Niño conditions in the Pacific Ocean are continuing to intensify, scientists said Thursday, setting up a winter that could bring drenching rain to some parts of California — at amounts potentially double the historical average, particularly in January and February.

On Thursday, scientists at NOAA, the ...Read more

In already one of the strongest Pacific hurricane seasons on record, with monster Hurricane Polo making landfall in Baja California Sur several weeks ago and several impacts to Hawaii over the past 2 months, another storm is now setting its sights a bit closer to home.

Tropical Storm Rachel is expected to impact Southern California and Baja ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Could Hurricane Isaias that strengthened in the Gulf Thursday deliver the destruction of 2024’s Hurricane Helene in the North Carolina mountains?

No, the Category 1 storm is not expected to be anywhere near the intensity of Category 4 Helene, National Weather Service forecasters said.

“Isaias is NOT expected to be ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricane Isaias intensified overnight Thursday with a forecast it will threaten Florida as it targets the Gulf Cosat. The storm just before midnight had become the first Atlantic system this year to reach hurricane strength, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. advisory, Isaias was still a ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Isaias formed Wednesday morning with the National Hurricane Center forecasting it to intensify close to a Category 3 storm before bearing down on the Gulf coast and threatening Florida.

As of the NHC’s 5 p.m. advisory, the center of Isaias was located about 2525 miles west-northwest of Progreso, Mexico and 500...Read more