Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, the first named storm of this hurricane season formed and made landfall in Texas as Tropical Storm Arthur. If you live ...

Tropical storms and hurricanes can still strengthen when atmospheric conditions are right, even during strong El Niños.

In June 1972, residents of a neighborhood in the town of Columbia, Virginia, in Fluvanna County, stood at the end of a flooded street off state Route 6. Days earlier, Hurricane Agnes caused record ...

Hurricane Agnes, by then downgraded to a tropical storm, dumped buckets of rain on the East Coast in June 1972, leaving devastating floods across central Pennsylvania. Even 53 years later, Agnes ...

Just two weeks into the 1972 hurricane season, a tropical depression formed near the Yucatán Peninsula. When it moved ashore in the Florida Panhandle just four days later as a weak Hurricane Agnes, it ...