Hurricane

Residents and visitors to Hawaii are bracing for yet another hurricane impact this weekend as Nolo strengthens several hundred miles of the Big Island today.

Hurricane Polo topped the scales as a showstopper Category 5 hurricane over the eastern Pacific about 200 miles south of Mexico Tuesday.

Hurricane Polo – currently paralleling Mexico’s Pacific coastline about 200 miles southwest of Acapulco – was a fledgling 45-50 mph tropical storm early Monday but underwent an extreme bout of rapid intensification over the past 24 hours, strengthening to a monstrous 160 mph Category 5 hurricane by Tuesday morning.

Tropical Storm Fay – the 6th named storm of the historically inactive 2026 Atlantic hurricane season – formed quickly over the weekend over the far northeastern Atlantic and made an unexpected run as the season’s first hurricane by Sunday evening.

The National Hurricane Center on Saturday issued advisories for Tropical Depression Six, located about 525 miles southeast of the Azores.

One hundred years ago this September, residents and newcomers to America’s Playground in Miami Beach awoke to what early Miami transplant, journalist, and famed conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas described as “a sea of raving white water.”

A century after a devastating hurricane tore through Miami, a temporary museum exhibit is giving visitors a glimpse into what it was like to experience one of the most significant events in the city’s early history.

One hundred years ago this morning, residents and newcomers to America’s Playground in Miami Beach awoke to what early Miami transplant, journalist, and famed conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas described as “a sea of raving white water.”

The low-pressure area spinning several hundred miles east of Bermuda – now designated Invest 98L by the National Hurricane Center – has become slightly better organized since Wednesday and NHC nudged up development odds again overnight.

The low-pressure system located over the central Atlantic early Wednesday about 600 miles east of Bermuda and being tagged for possible development by the National Hurricane Center remains convectively starved and appears to be in no hurry to organize.

It’s been 13 days since the Atlantic basin – which includes the Gulf, Caribbean, and wider Atlantic – has had any active systems, a remarkable an unprecedented dry spell coinciding with what are typically the most active weeks of the hurricane season.

An area over the middle Atlantic that we first highlighted in this newsletter last Thursday as the next development candidate was added to the National Hurricane Center’s tropical weather outlook map early Sunday.

The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season continues to make history in all the right ways.

Artificial Intelligence continues to chisel away at the hurricane forecast problem, with Google’s DeepMind flagship AI hurricane model once again leading the pack in 2026.

For only the third time in reliable records (since at least 1950), the Atlantic hurricane season has fallen silent – absent any active tropical depressions, named storms, or hurricanes – in the week centered on its traditional September 10th peak.