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5 days ago | 
usatoday.com | Doyle Rice
It's here... The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season begins Sunday June 1, 2025. Forecasts say the season will bring months of danger for millions of Americans, and the time to prepare starts well before the storms form. In the Atlantic Basin, which includes storms that form in the Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America (formerly known as Gulf of Mexico), hurricane season lasts from June 1 until Nov. 30.
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5 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Joe Mason |Doyle Rice
It’s been a slow start for summer heat. Don’t worry, it’s coming. The spring has yet to offer up too many great beach days to start the summer of 2025. On days we did see the temperatures rise, we typically also dealt with rain. Hot, sunny beach days have been few and far between, but things could change. Quickly.
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6 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Doyle Rice
Two South Florida shark divers thought they were doing the right thing. But John Moore Jr. and Tanner Mansell were charged with theft and convicted in …
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6 days ago | 
usatoday.com | Doyle Rice
Meteorologists say summer is right around the corner — and it's set to be a doozie. June 1 marks the first day of meteorological summer, the kickoff of the three months that typically feel the hottest (although the calendar will technically say it's spring until June 20). According to multiple outlooks, summer 2025 will be a scorcher. The summer forecast calls for hotter-than-normal temperatures from coast-to-coast, according to NOAA's Climate Prediction Center and other private forecasters.
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6 days ago | 
usatoday.com | Doyle Rice
A small village in the Swiss Alps has been engulfed by ice, mud, and rock in a rare natural disaster that points to an uncertain future as unstable mountainous glaciers trigger ice-rock-debris avalanches. A swirling and volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human development contribute to the danger, leaving experts concerned about what the future may hold.
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1 week ago | 
heraldmailmedia.com | Doyle Rice
Atlantic hurricane season 2025 is almost here and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says a "confluence of factors" are set to fuel tropical cyclones in coming months. NOAA officials said to prepare for danger now as they released a forecast that predicts a 60% chance of an above average season. Specifically, NOAA is forecasting a range of 13 to 19 total named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher).
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1 week ago | 
usatoday.com | Doyle Rice
Human-caused global warming will continue to bake the Earth over the next several years, experts from the United Nations and the United Kingdom said in a May 28 report, noting that "global climate predictions show temperatures are expected to continue at or near record levels in the next five years." Specifically, there is an 80% chance that at least one of the next five years will see record heat, with a high likelihood that average warming will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees...
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1 week ago | 
usatoday.com | Doyle Rice
Tropical Storm Alvin formed in the the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, May 29, becoming the first named storm anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere this year. Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center say the storm poses no direct threat to the United States, but it could bring locally heavy rain and gusty winds near the west-central Mexico coastline late week into the weekend. Alvin's formation marks the end of an unusual drought of tropical activity in the Northern Hemisphere.
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1 week ago | 
aol.com | Doyle Rice
Tropical Storm Alvin formed in the the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, May 29, becoming the first named storm anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere this year. Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center say the storm poses no direct threat to the United States, but it could bring locally heavy rain and gusty winds near the west-central Mexico coastline late week into the weekend. Alvin's formation marks the end of an unusual drought of tropical activity in the Northern Hemisphere.
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1 week ago | 
usatoday.com | Doyle Rice
With the official start to the 2025 hurricane season just days away, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center are tracking two tropical waves in the Atlantic basin as of May 27. One wave is in the central Atlantic and the other is in the Caribbean. Neither is expected to develop into a named storm, which is typical: While 100 or so tropical waves form in the Atlantic each year, only an average of 14 named storms develop each year, according to the hurricane center.
