Heavy rains still threatened to cause dangerous flooding and mudslides in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. ...more

June 2, 2008

Olga strengthened and became a tropical storm Tuesday as it drenched the Dominican Republic, forcing the evacuation of low-lying communities ahead of the rare December cyclone. ...more

December 12, 2007

Tropical Storm Noel drenched the Bahamas and Cuba on Thursday, while in the storm's wake rescuers in the Dominican Republic headed out in boats and helicopters to reach dozens of communities stranded by floods and mudslides. The death toll in the Caribbean rose to 108. ...more

November 2, 2007

Tropical Storm Melissa weakened into a depression Sunday far out in the open Atlantic, while the remnants of Tropical Storm Karen dwindled away in the central Atlantic, forecasters said. ...more

October 1, 2007

A tropical depression came ashore in the Florida Panhandle on Friday, sparing coastal Louisiana and Mississippi the first serious brush with tropical weather since two hurricanes laid waste to the area in 2005. ...more

September 22, 2007

Call it the instant hurricane. Humberto, which grew faster than any storm on record from tropical depression to full-scale hurricane landfall, surprised the Texas-Louisiana coast early Thursday with 85-mph winds and heavy rain that knocked out power to more than 100,000 and left at least one person dead. ...more

September 14, 2007