Hurricane Milton surged Monday into a monster Category 5 storm with 180 mph winds in the Gulf of Mexico, and is forecast to remain a dangerous major hurricane ahead of landfall on Florida’s Gulf ...

Before what would become Hurricane Helene could even shoot the Yucatan Channel, meteorologists knew that what was unfolding would be one of the most far-reaching storm surge events on Florida’s ...

Aiden Bowles was stubborn, so even as Florida officials told residents of the barrier island north of St. Petersburg that Hurricane Helene’s storm surge could be deadly, the retired restaurant ...

After first hitting Florida's Big Bend region on Sept. 26 with 140 mph winds, torrential rain and a far-reaching storm surge, Helene moved inland, inundating parts of Georgia, South Carolina ...

In any tropical storm or hurricane, the biggest danger is not the wind. It's the water. Storm surge, the massive amount of relentless water that comes ashore during a hurricane and up into rivers ...

With catastrophic storm surge expected along Florida's coast when Hurricane Helene slams ashore Thursday, northern Gulf Coast residents Gene and Margaret Taylor understand better than anyone about ...

That's storm surge. It's more deadly and destructive than wind and can make a significant impact far from the center of a storm.. The most common way to measure a hurricane's strength is the ...

Bolivar Island faced major destruction from Hurricane Ike's storm surge in 2008 When a hurricane threatens the United States, a lot of attention is focused on the path and the wind speed.