Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco asked President Bush to declare an emergency for her state Tuesday ahead of Hurricane Rita's arrival somewhere on the Gulf Coast. Earlier, Blanco declared a state of ...

The costliest hurricane to impact the U.S. was Hurricane Katrina (2005), which caused an estimated $201.3 billion in damage.

The 2025 list of hurricane names was last used in 2019. This Atlantic hurricane season is expected to have an above-normal ...

In 2005, Cione led the first successful unmanned aircraft flight into the core of a mature tropical storm, Ophelia. Two years later, he flew a drone into Hurricane Noel. Researchers have come a ...

The first flight of a drone into a hurricane was in 2005 during Hurricane Ophelia in a mission Cione conducted with NASA and the Australian-based Aerosonde Pty Ltd, which is now Textron Systems. That ...

The major storm then became a Category 5 monster a few days later, breaking the previous record held by 2005's Hurricane ... In North Carolina, Hurricane Ophelia caused the most impacts.

All signs are pointing to a very busy hurricane season ... most active season was 2005 when there were 28 named storms and a record 15 hurricanes. In the end, only Ophelia tracked into the ...

Active La Niña years in 2005 and 2020 set records for the number ... Three storms, including tropical storms Harold, Ophelia and Hurricane Idalia made landfall in the US. Meanwhile, sea surface ...

Hurricane Ophelia was next up as it made landfall in ... only the 'hyperactive' seasons of 2005, 2020 and 2021 had more. Matthe Rosencrans, the lead hurricane forecaster at NOAA said: 'The ...

Idalia and Ophelia, the U.S. was repeatedly spared from disastrous storms supercharged by record heat in the ocean. Major, potentially calamitous storms such as Hurricane Lee – which was a ...

As the remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia slowly dissipated Tuesday, hurricane forecasters were ... The 17 named storms so far in 2023 tie 2005 for the third-most Atlantic named storms through ...

Ophelia was the 15th named storm of the ‘23 Atlantic hurricane season surpassing the ... is exhausted (has only happened three times - 2005, 2020 & 2021). The naming of tropical cyclones began ...