GULF COAST

As Hurricane Ida struck the Louisiana Gulf Coast in August 2021, Renato Decena and Rosel Hernandez watched the storm punch a hole in the roof of the bunkhouse where they were sheltered — abandoned, they allege, by their offshore oil industry employer as the hurricane bore down. (Jan. 27)

A powerful Gulf Coast storm system led to tornado warnings being issued for the greater Houston area Tuesday afternoon, with the warning expiring as the system moved east.

A cold front forecast is causing a chance of tornadoes and severe storms in communities from Louisiana to Florida. The severe weather will start Tuesday and go until early Wednesday.

The office of Florida congressman Greg Steube says he sustained several injuries in an accident at his home on Florida's Gulf Coast.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken over a case involving the discovery of a woman's body in a trash bag floating off the Florida Gulf Coast.

Sea levels are expected to rise around the contiguous U.S. faster than previously thought, a new NASA study finds.

Sea levels are expected to rise around the contiguous U.S. faster than previously thought, a new NASA study finds.

A storm system moving across the Plains will deliver the first accumulating snow of the season for areas of the Southern U.S., which is also facing a storm risk.

Officials in Mexico say a fireworks explosion at a Day of the Dead celebration injured 17 people

Federal weather officials say drought and wildfire risks will remain elevated in the western states while warmer than average temperatures will greet the Southwest, Gulf Coast and East Coast this winter.

Cold weather and snow are forecast across the eastern Great Lakes and interior Northeast regions through Friday as record warmth comes to an end over the Northwest.

Cold weather is forecast across the U.S., with more than 70 million Americans under frost or freeze advisories. Snow is expected in Great Lakes and Northeast.

Tropical Storm Karl is moving slowly toward Mexico’s southern Gulf coast, with landfall expected late Friday or early Saturday

Tropical Storm Karl’s forward movement has stalled off Mexico’s southern Gulf coast, though forecasters say the halt should be brief and expect it to begin moving southward toward land early Thursday

Five migrants are dead and seven others are injured following a highway accident in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz

It is the weekend after Hurricane Ian ravaged the southern Gulf Coast and while South Florida was spared from the storm's devastation, scientists with Florida International University's Institute of Environment are making sure water management didn't unleash a different type of catastrophe.

After meeting residents and business owners devastated by Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Fla., Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Biden, discussed how local, state and federal agencies can work together to help those affected by the storm.

Pine Island, Florida's largest Gulf Coast island, was devastated by Hurricane Ian. Many residents stayed behind but have limited access to the mainland after the main road leading there was destroyed.

Rescue groups are helping people trapped on Sanibel Island after Hurricane Ian destroyed the bridge connecting the island to the rest of Florida.

Hurricane Ian pummeled the Gulf Coast of Florida, leaving a horrible trail of destruction in its path.

Fox News rode along with the Lee County Sheriff's Office to capture the destruction left by Hurricane Ian.

Some Floridians were trapped at home during the hurricane because they didn't have the money to evacuate.

One by one, armed with handfuls of belongings or cellphones and cameras, residents of cities along Florida’s Gulf coast returned to their homes on Thursday to survey the damage. Some of the first signs of the historic destruction left by Hurricane Ian were evident on Interstate-75 near Golden Gate, about 40 miles south of Fort Myers Thursday morning as at least 50 Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

Three people have been arrested and accused of trying to transport smuggled migrants into the interior of the United States by air, bypassing Border Patrol checkpoints, according to court records.

Statewide first responders including government and nonprofit aid organizations from South Florida rushed to Florida's Gulf Coast to assist with recovery efforts from Hurricane Ian.

As Ian continued its destructive trek across Florida, over a million households across the state awoke on Thursday without electricity as residents and emergency crews along the Gulf Coast began to assess the toppled buildings, flooded streets and crippled infrastructure.

Hurricane Ian is currently hitting the Gulf Coast of Florida after strengthening to a Category 4 storm before making landfall, possibly near Port Charlotte.

Carbon monoxide poisoning from using a generator indoors can "kill you in minutes," the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warns.

Water is seen receding from the Tampa Bay shores at the Florida Gulf coast as Hurricane Ian closes in. The water is being pushed away by Ian's strong winds and will return with the storm surge.

Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama is providing a safe place for Florida Gulf Coast residents seeking refuge from Hurricane Ian by temporarily opening up its campgrounds for free.

Residents in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Manatee and Pasco counties are eligible for the discounted rides, Gov. DeSantis said.

With Hurricane Ian expected to skirt along the Gulf Coast of Key West Tuesday, there is still no telling where the powerful storm will make landfall in Florida.

An intensifying Hurricane Ian is expected to grow wider and stronger and then slow down on its approach toward Florida’s Gulf coast which could prolong dangerous storm surge, winds and heavy rainfall, forecasters said.

A Category 5 storm in Tampa Bay could produce a 26-foot flood and kill up to 2,000 people, according to Vox.

As forecasts foretold, Ian took advantage of ripe conditions in the western Caribbean late yesterday to blossom overnight into the Atlantic’s fourth hurricane of 2022.

Tropical Storm Ian became Hurricane Ian on Monday morning. The storm has winds of 75mph. Ian is expected to become a major hurricane within the next day or two.

The disturbance we’re tracking along the northern coast of Venezuela in the eastern Caribbean Thursday – coined Invest 98L – is expected to organize into a strengthening storm by next week and pose a potential threat to the U.S. while powerful Hurricane Fiona will bring hurricane conditions to Bermuda Thursday night into Friday before morphing into an extreme, historic, and potentially record-shattering hurricane-like storm for Nova Scotia and the Canadian Maritimes this weekend.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in Tallahassee says the rule change about transgender treatments will have dire emotional, physical and psychological consequences for transgender Medicaid beneficiaries in Florida if it's allowed to stand.

Labor Day marks the end of the summer driving season. While gas prices are elevated, the U.S. avoided the stretch of super high prices that some had feared.

Gulf Shores, Ala., offers the same Gulf beauty without the crowds and activity of Destin, Fla.

Its odds of developing are at 30% within the next five days, up from 20% on Sunday. Regardless of development, it may bring heavy rain to the Florida Panhandle across to Louisiana this week.

Its odds of developing are at 20% within the next five days, according to experts. Regardless of development, it may bring heavy rain to the Florida Panhandle across to Louisiana over the next several days.

Authorities in Mexico’s Gulf coast Hustaeca region say the bound bodies of four people have been found in the burned-out wreckage of a helicopter, along with signs indicating they were killed by a drug gang

LGBTQ advocates say the recent fatal shooting of a 27-year-old Black transgender woman along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast reflects a disturbing pattern of violence against an already marginalized group

On top of their huge human cost, storms can knock out oil production and refining, causing long-lasting disruptions.

Photos of the bodies showed extensive bruising on the corpses, suggesting they had been beaten.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center has issued a bulletin on an area of low pressure on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula that could become a depression or tropical storm and head toward Florida’s Gulf coast

Three migrants have drowned off Mexico’s Gulf coast and four are missing

The first disturbance of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is in the Gulf of Mexico, and it's being monitored by the Miami, Florida-based National Hurricane Center.

The Clotilda has been encased for decades in mud that conceivably could hold traces of DNA from captives, officials say.

A crew working on the Alabama coast is assessing the remains of the last slave ship known to have landed in the United States, more than 160 years ago.

"It's important to be aware of the dangers below the water as well as above," the sheriff's office wrote.

"It's important to be aware of the dangers below the water as well as above," the sheriff's office wrote.

There are about 850 tick species globally, but the ticks to keep an eye out for in Illinois include the blacklegged tick (or deer tick), the American dog tick, the lone star tick and the Gulf Coast tick — a more recent arrival.

Authorities say they were able to rescue a woman by helicopter after she was stuck in the vast marshland of a Florida state park. Various agencies were deployed to the 11,000-acre (4,450-hectare) Estero Bay Preserve State Park on the Gulf Coast south of Fort Myers. The Iona McGregor Fire District says the woman was out hiking with her husband Friday, but the man had gotten tired and had decided to return while she kept going and got lost.

The costs of LNG export expansion plans likely will outlast Europe's need for the gas.

"This type of harassment causes undue stress to wild dolphins, is dangerous for the people who interact with them and is illegal," rescuers said.

Severe weather brought a tornado and hail as large as softballs to Arkansas.

A case involving a woman charged with murder has highlighted the need for safe abortion access in Texas.

An EF2 tornado with estimated wind speeds of 118 mph touched down in Fort Myers.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference Friday morning in Bay County, on the Gulf coast in northwestern Florida.

A major U.S. port was the target last month of suspected nation-state hackers.

The winds are winding down in Tropical Depression Nicholas, but the rain continues to fall. While the center of Nicholas’s circulation is crawling across southwestern Louisiana, the heavy rain on the east side of the storm has expanded all the way to the Florida Panhandle.

Nicholas just reached hurricane strength, but thankfully could not get itself well organized before it made landfall on the Texas coast south of Houston last night. Still, it brought along a boatload of tropical moisture, which it’s now dumping all along the northern Gulf coast.

At 400 PM CDT (2100 UTC), the center of Post-Tropical Cyclone Nicholas was located near latitude 32.0 North, longitude 92.7 West. The post-tropical cyclone is moving toward the north near 2 mph (4...

Joe Sobol, owner of Big Easy Construction in New Orleans, has bad news for homeowners who’ve been calling about roofs damaged by Hurricane Ida.

President Joe Biden is pledging robust federal help for the Northeastern and Gulf states battered by Hurricane Ida and for Western states beset by wildfires.

Officials are offering new hope for the safety of U.S. schoolchildren threatened by COVID-19.

Tropical Storm Ida formed early Thursday afternoon in the Western Caribbean, and as of midday Friday, it was projected that the storm would track into the Gulf eventually as a hurricane of at least Category 2 strength.

Once again, Louisiana is the bullseye. Tropical Storm Ida is likely to become a strong hurricane as it makes a beeline for the Gulf coast south or southwest of New Orleans.

Tropical Storm Ida has formed in the Caribbean and forecasters say it's aimed at the U.S. Gulf Coast, prompting Louisiana’s governor to declare a state of emergency and forecasters to announce a hurricane watch for New Orleans.

Tropical Disturbance #1 is very close to reaching tropical depression status, and possibly it will jump right to Tropical Storm Ida. Turning of the air is evident. Hurricane Hunters will investigate the system today to see if an organized circulation has formed.

Summer officially ends on Wednesday, September 22, but for Floridians, we know there’s no such thing as “the end of summer” — summer in the Sunshine State lasts year-round.

The U.S. Gulf Coast is glowing like a bad sunburn on maps that show COVID-19 trouble spots in red.

Tropical Depression Grace is drenching Haiti, dumping up to 15 inches of rain on a quake-damaged landscape as thousands of people huddle in fields and search for survivors.

All eyes are on Tropical Storm Elsa as it makes its way up the Gulf Coast. Overnight, it weakened from a Category 1 hurricane back to a tropical storm, but northwest Florida is still expected to be hit with winds near 70 miles per hour.

Local 10 News' Roy Ramos traveled up to Cedar Key, which is near the big bend of the state, located about an hour southwest of Gainesville.

Weather forecasters say a storm that has been lashing Florida over the past day has intensified into a hurricane.

El ciberataque contra el Colonial Pipeline no tendrá el mayor impacto en los precios de la gasolina en Florida, pero el costo del combustible todavía aumentó en un centavo en la última semana en el estado.

Part of the reason you are paying more at the pump is because of supply issues caused by the winter weather on the Gulf Coast. (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Florida’s average gas price jumped 15 cents in the past week, reaching the highest level the state has seen in 19 months. The state average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is $2.61 on Monday morning, the steepest price at the pump since July 2019. South Florida’s gas prices are higher than the state average. According to AAA, on Monday morning the average cost was:$2.620 in Miami-Dade County$2.634 in Broward County$2.645 in Monroe County$2.711 in Palm Beach CountyFor more info on Florida gas prices, click here. Experts have continued to say that the recent rise in gas prices is not a reflection of Joe Biden taking over the White House.

FORT MYERS, Fla. – The U.S. Coast Guard says a man went missing after falling into the water from a dinner-cruise ship in the Gulf Coast in Florida. The agency said Saturday that Joel Henderson, 37, was not wearing a lifejacket when he fell from the Capt. The company J.C. Cruises says Capt J.P. is a 475-passenger paddlewheel boat that tours the scenic Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, Florida. The company did not immediately respond to requests for comment Sunday. Coast Guard crews searched for more than 11 hours in the waters before suspending the search.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – The U.S. National Hurricane Center’s 10 p.m. advisory reported Tropical Storm Eta was about 90 miles away from northwestern Cuba. Tropical Storm Eta 10pm advisory cone. City of Miami:City of Miami presser on Tropical Storm Eta WATCH LIVE: City of Miami officials hold press conference to discuss looming threat of Tropical Storm Eta. Latest on the storm: https://bit.ly/2GEgey7 Posted by WPLG Local 10 on Sunday, November 8, 2020Miami-Dade County:Miami-Dade County presser on Tropical Storm Eta WATCH LIVE: Miami-Dade County officials hold press conference to discuss looming threat of Tropical Storm Eta. Latest on the storm: https://bit.ly/2GEgey7 Posted by WPLG Local 10 on Sunday, November 8, 2020Broward County:Broward County presser on Tropical Storm Eta WATCH LIVE: Broward County officials hold press conference to discuss looming threat of Tropical Storm Eta.

Hurricane Zeta passed through Wednesday leaving much of the city and metro area without power. Even as Zeta battered the south, the upcoming election was still on the mind of some residents. “Guys, we received the brunt of Zeta, and Zeta gave us a good punch,” McInnis told WDSU-TV. More than 875,000 customers were without electricity in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, including about 350,000 in metro New Orleans. Winds could be “especially severe” in the southern Appalachian Mountains, where flash flooding is possible, the hurricane center said.

In the process of reorganizing, Tropical Storm Zeta recentered itself to the south of its previous position in the western Caribbean yesterday. It’s been an insane year on that well-worn corridor from the Yucatán to the central Gulf Coast. Zeta might get significantly stronger pretty quickly today and tomorrow, except for an interruption when it passes over the northern Yucatán. A strong mid-to-upper-atmosphere disturbance will be moving over Texas at about the time Zeta gets to the northern Gulf coast on Wednesday. On the current schedule, Zeta will reach the northern Gulf coast on Wednesday, so tomorrow is preparation day.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – There’s more rain in the forecast Monday in South Florida, extending the flood watch until 8 p.m. after a wet weekend that has already had water piling up in many areas. Tropical Storm Zeta, which is expected to become a hurricane Monday, will actually help South Florida’s weather pattern as it heads toward the Gulf Coast. Local 10 meteorologist Julie Durda is also tracking a cold front that could come through late this week, as Halloween approaches Saturday. Watch Julie’s full forecast at the top of this page. For the latest updates, visit the Weather Authority page.

MIAMI – Newly formed Tropical Storm Zeta gradually strengthened Sunday in the western Caribbean and forecasters said it would likely become a hurricane before hitting Mexico's resort-dotted Yucatan Peninsula and the U.S. Gulf Coast in coming days. Zeta was the earliest named 27th Atlantic storm recorded in an already historic hurricane season. The system was centered about 260 miles (420 kilometers) southeast of Cozumel island late Sunday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The government is still handing out aid, including sheet roofing, to Yucatan residents hit by Hurricane Delta and Tropical Storm Gamma earlier this month. The hurricane center said it could make landfall anywhere from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.

Zeta is moving toward the east-northeast near 55 mph (89 km/h), and this general motion is expected to continue through tonight. On the forecast track, the center of Zeta will emerge over the western Atlantic this evening. Maximum sustained winds are near 50 mph (85 km/h) with higher gusts. A sustained wind of 39 mph (63 km/h) and a gust to 46 mph (74 km/h) were recently reported at Ocean City, Maryland. RAINFALL: The last of the heavy rainfall along the track of Zeta will impact the Mid-Atlantic through this evening.

FOLEY, Ala – A U.S. Navy training plane that took off from Florida crashed Friday in an Alabama residential neighborhood near the Gulf Coast, killing both people in the plane, authorities said. Zach Harrell, a spokesperson for Commander, Naval Air Forces, said both people in the T-6B Texan II training plane died, but they weren’t immediately releasing their names. The crash occurred southeast of Mobile, near the city of Foley and the town of Magnolia Springs. The plane had flown out of Naval Air Station Whiting Field, about 30 miles (48.28 kilometers) northeast of Pensacola, Florida, Navy spokeswoman Julie Ziegenhorn said. The U.S. Department of Defense and the Navy were set to handle the investigation, the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office tweeted.

This photo provided by Greg Crippen shows the scene where a U.S. Navy training plane crashed in an Alabama residential neighborhood near the Gulf Coast, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020 near Foley, Ala. (Greg Crippen via AP)FOLEY, Ala. – A U.S. Navy training plane that took off from Florida crashed Friday in an Alabama residential neighborhood near the Gulf Coast, killing both people in the plane, authorities said. Zach Harrell, a spokesperson for Commander, Naval Air Forces, said both people in the T-6B Texan II training plane died, but they weren't immediately releasing their names. The crash occurred southeast of Mobile, near the city of Foley and the town of Magnolia Springs. The plane had flown out of Naval Air Station Whiting Field, about 30 miles (48.28 kilometers) northeast of Pensacola, Florida, Navy spokeswoman Julie Ziegenhorn said. The U.S. Department of Defense and the Navy were set to handle the investigation, the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office tweeted.

Louisiana residents still recovering from the devastation of a powerful hurricane less than two months ago braced for another hit as Hurricane Delta steamed north through the Gulf on Thursday after swiping Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula. The projected path included the southwest area of Louisiana where Category 4 Hurricane Laura made landfall less than two months ago. Randazzo watched pieces of one of his restaurants, Panorama Music House, fly past a meteorologist’s car on a Facebook Live video during Hurricane Laura. The most recent forecast for Hurricane Delta has the storm making landfall “almost precisely” where Hurricane Laura struck — a region where homes and electrical infrastructure are still damaged, Edwards said in a radio interview. New Orleans, well to the east of the projected landfall area, was expected to escape the worst of Hurricane Delta.

The storm being watched Wednesday was Hurricane Delta, the 25th named storm of the Atlantic's unprecedented hurricane season. Forecasts placed most of Louisiana within Delta's path, with the latest National Hurricane Center estimating landfall in the state on Friday. Along with getting hit by Hurricane Laura and escaping Hurricane Sally, Louisiana saw heavy flooding June 7 from Tropical Storm Cristobal. Tropical Storm Beta prompted tropical storm warnings in mid-September as it slowly crawled up the northeast Texas coast. “Not seeing any signs of any additional tropical weather in the extended which is OK with us because we are SO DONE with Hurricane Season 2020,” they wrote.

Early this morning, Hurricane Delta made a direct hit on the resort areas of Cancún and Cozumel in Mexico. The larger the diameter of the storm, the greater the storm surge on the northern Gulf coast. The Gulf water piles on top of the shelf and spreads inland. The consensus of the computer forecast models and the National Hurricane Center forecast brings Delta ashore in Louisiana. The longer, arcing track has delayed the Hurricane Watches and Storm Surge Watches for the northern Gulf coast, but they will be issued today.

Hurricane Delta is the kind of storm we hate to see. There is nothing obvious to keep Hurricane Delta from getting quite strong. The fact that the core of Hurricane Delta is small turns out to be a good thing in this case. Hurricane Watches will likely be issued for the northern Gulf coast late today or early tomorrow. High pressure is protecting us – the same high-pressure system that is steering Delta toward the northern Gulf coast.

Fishermen pull in a boat before the arrival of Hurricane Delta in Puerto Juarez, Cancun, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. Hurricane Delta rapidly intensified into a potentially catastrophic Category 4 hurricane Tuesday on a course to hammer southeastern Mexico and then continue on to the U.S. Gulf coast this week. (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz Garcia)MEXICO CITY – Hurricane Delta rapidly intensified into a dangerous Category 4 storm Tuesday while on a course to hammer Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and then continue on to the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week. From Tulum to Cancun, tourism-dependent communities still soaked by the remnants of Tropical Storm Gamma could bear the brunt of Delta. Delta increased in strength 80 mph, more than doubling from a 60 mph storm at 2 pm EDT Monday to 140 mph at 2 pm EDT Tuesday.

MEXICO CITY – Tropical Storm Delta rapidly strengthened into a hurricane in the Caribbean Monday, aiming to hit Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula potentially as a major storm before continuing on to strike the U.S. Gulf coast later in the week. It continued to break up just north of the Yucatan Peninsula. The hurricane was moving into an area with very warm water and nearly calm high winds that forecasters at the hurricane center called “a very conducive environment for strengthening." The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Monday evening that a hurricane warning was in effect in Mexico, from Tulum to Rio Lagartos, as well as Cozumel. A tropical storm warning is in effect for the Cayman Islands and the Cuban province of Pinar del Rio.

Location 90 miles S of Knoxville Tennessee Wind 15 mph Heading E at 15 mph Pressure 29.77 Coordinates 84.1W, 34.5NDiscussionAt 1100 PM EDT (0300 UTC), the center of Post-Tropical Cyclone Delta was located near latitude 34.5 North, longitude 84.1 West. The post-tropical cyclone is moving toward the east near 15 mph, and this motion is expected to continue tonight and Monday morning. Maximum sustained winds are near 15 mph (30 km/h) with higher gusts. Some further weakening is possible tonight as a new surface low develops in the Carolinas, and Delta's surface low is expected to be absorbed by this new low pressure area on Monday. Moderate to major river flooring will continue across the Calcasieu and Mermentau river basins in Louisiana through much of next week

Forecasters said Beta was not expected to bring the same amount of rainfall that Texas experienced during either Hurricane Harvey in 2017 or Tropical Storm Imelda last year. The first rain bands from Beta reached the Texas coast on Sunday, but the heaviest rain wasn't expected to arrive until Monday into Tuesday. If the system makes landfall in Texas, it would be the ninth named storm to make landfall in the continental U.S. in 2020. A tropical storm warning was in effect for Bermuda. Wilfred, which had been a tropical storm, weakened to a tropical depression earlier Sunday.

– As rain and wind from Sally starting reaching the Gulf Coast, the manager of a Mississippi alligator ranch was just hoping he wouldn’t have to deal with a repeat of what happened during Hurricane Katrina. That’s when about 250 alligators escaped their enclosures as storm surge pushed water over the grounds. “I’m thinking a sigh of relief somewhat,” said manager Tim Parker, who took over Gulf Coast Gator Ranch & Tours after Katrina. As the hurricane moved east of Mississippi, the surge forecast was reduced to no more than 4 feet (1.2 meters). Parker’s farm has alligators up to 14 feet long, roaming and swimming through ponds, sand dunes and tall marsh grass.

A curfew was called in the coastal Alabama city of Gulf Shores due to life-threatening conditions. The county includes Pensacola, one of the largest cities on the Gulf Coast. Landfall was expected on the northern Gulf Coast early Wednesday. Although the hurricane had the Alabama and Florida coasts in its sights Wednesday, its effects were felt all along the northern Gulf Coast. With Hurricane Sally expected to dump rain for days, the problem could be worse than normal, she said.