Hurricane Idalia officially made landfall Wednesday around 7:45 a.m. ET near Keaton Beach, Florida, as a Category 3 storm with sustained winds at 125 mph, bringing dangerous storm surges and rainfall ...

DEBARY, Fla. — Anyone keeping tabs on Hurricane Idalia’s path might be doing a double take at a few of the computer models predicting a loop in the Atlantic Ocean and a return to Florida for a second ...

When a tropical storm passes over the Loop Current or one of its giant eddies — large rotating pools of warm water that spin off from the current — the storm can explode in strength as it draws energy ...

The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already warmer than average. Even more worrying is a current of warm tropical water that is looping unusually far into the ...