As Hurricane Helene battered Florida, NASA’s AWE mission detected atmospheric waves, hinting that extreme storms influence ...

Climate Central’s dataset, updated through last month, tracks 426 events that each caused at least $1 billion in ...

For the next 12 months, WDSU will feature stories on the people who played key roles before, during and after the storm.

New Orleans & Company expects to end 2025 with 61.4 percent hotel occupancy, down 5.4 percent from 2024. 2025 visitor numbers will not be available until the spring of 2026. In 2024, New Orleans ...

More than a thousand letters were written and answered after the hurricane. They’re now housed in an exhibit at the Ground ...

Hours from landfall, Hurricane Melissa is also slow moving like Hurricane Harvey in 2017, which could mean catastrophic flooding. By Judson Jones Reporter and meteorologist Hurricane Melissa is only ...

Hurricane Melissa is stronger than Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago, forecasters warn. While both storms reached sustained winds of 175 mph at their peak, Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 storm.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Photojournalist Clarence Williams is retelling the story of Hurricane Katrina through his own unique lens at this limited-time exhibit. Williams was visiting ...

Twenty years ago this week, and just short of one month after Hurricane Katrina destroyed parts of the Mississippi coast and put New Orleans under water for weeks, the unthinkable happened: An even ...

My family was fortunate enough to be able to evacuate. We worried about affording gas, food and lodging, but we pooled enough to at least cover us for a few days. We had no idea what was to come.

“We Came to Rebuild New Orleans: Stories of the Hurricane Katrina Volunteers” by Christopher E. Manning, LSU Press, 308 pages, and “Rebuilding New Orleans: Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors ...

Across the Southeast, hurricanes dominate conversations from June through September. But this year feels different—it marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall in ...