The Latest Breaking News from The National Hurricane Center

Erin went from a tropical storm to a category 5 in about 24 hours, underscoring the danger of hurricane season amid a diminished Fema and National Weather Service

Hurricane Erin has battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes

The Coast Guard allowed all ports in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to reopen

Hurricane Erin won’t make a direct hit on the U.S., but it will produce dangerous surf conditions for the entire U.S. East Coast

The hurricane was located 105 miles (170 kilometers) north of Anguilla at about 11 am Saturday

On Thursday evening, Erin was ‘near hurricane strength,’ officials warned

Satellite data allows meteorologists to keep track of the location, structure and intensity of severe weather, helping to keep people safe. Now they're losing access to these satellites.

About 600 miles off the west coast of Africa, large clusters of thunderstorms begin organizing into tropical storms every hurricane season. They aren’t yet in range of Hurricane Hunter flights, so forecasters at the National Hurricane Center rely on weather satellites to peer down on these storms and beam back…

If it forms, Tropical Storm Chantal would be the third named storm of the season after Andrea and Barry