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By Andrew Freedman, Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The two massive tropical systems swirling off the Southeast coast are a stark reminder that the potential government shutdown looms during the middle of the Atlantic hurricane season. Weather forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and disaster response specialists at the Federal Emergency Management Agency

By CNN Meteorologist Briana Waxman (CNN) — Tropical Storm Imelda is strengthening and is expected to become a hurricane by Tuesday as it moves off the Southeast coast, kicking up dangerous surf, rip currents, coastal flooding and beach erosion from Florida through the Carolinas. At the same time, Hurricane Humberto, which briefly exploded into a

By CNN Meteorologist Chris Dolce (CNN) — Tropical Storm Imelda formed over the Bahamas Sunday afternoon and is expected to intensify into a hurricane, and while its forecast is less ominous for the Southeast coast, the storm will still be felt there. Newly-formed Imelda has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and is 335 miles

By CNN Meteorologist Briana Waxman, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Humberto rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm Friday and Saturday over the warm, energy-filled water of the open Atlantic Ocean. But there’s a quiet threat creeping toward the Southeast coast that people there should keep their eye on. A strengthening tropical depression brewing

By CNN Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Hurricanes and other systems don’t often find themselves in a tropical traffic jam in Earth’s vast oceans, but there are consequences when they do get all up in each other’s business. A tropical tango known as the Fujiwhara effect can unfold when two storms move too close

By CNN Meteorologists Briana Waxman and Chris Dolce (CNN) — Tropical Storm Humberto is spinning in the west-central Atlantic, but the bigger question for the United States is what’s brewing behind it. Humberto is not a direct threat to the US, but it could rapidly intensify and grow into a major hurricane this weekend as

By CNN Meteorologist Chris Dolce Tropical Storm Humberto has sprung to life in the Atlantic, and there could be a double dose of tropical trouble in the coming days: Another storm is likely to form near the Bahamas and put the East Coast on alert heading into the weekend. Newly formed Tropical Storm Humberto, the

By CNN Meteorologist Briana Waxman (CNN) — The Atlantic is suddenly buzzing with tropical activity. Hurricane Gabrielle is a strong Category 3 storm east of Bermuda, and two more potential tropical systems — one nearing the Caribbean and another farther east — could follow this week. Neither new disturbance is an immediate threat to land,

By CNN Meteorologists Derek Van Dam, Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Hurricane Gabrielle rapidly intensified in warm water in the central Atlantic far from land Monday morning, becoming the second major hurricane of the 2025 season. Major hurricanes are Category 3 or stronger. Gabrielle was a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds Monday

By CNN Meteorologist Chris Dolce Deep mudslides and flash flooding hit Southern California Thursday after drenching thunderstorms fed by the moisture of former Eastern Pacific Tropical Storm Mario spread over the region. The Oak Glen, Forest Falls and Potato Canyon areas of San Bernardino County were particularly hard hit. Mud and debris flows impacted multiple

By CNN Meteorologists Mary Gilbert, Chris Dolce, CNN Tropical Storm Gabrielle is struggling to organize after it formed Wednesday in the central Atlantic Ocean and put an end to an unusual nearly three-week stretch with no storms during the peak of hurricane season. Gabrielle was churning around 700 miles east-northeast of the Caribbean’s northern Leeward

By CNN Meteorologist Briana Waxman (CNN) — Anyone who’s drinking hot pumpkin spice lattes in a chunky sweater may need to rein it in for a little while. The crisp weather many in the United States enjoyed over the last week or two was just a sneak peek of fall: Late summer heat is making

By CNN Meteorologist Chris Dolce Atlantic hurricane season has hit a September speed bump. The season’s peak will pass this week with no active storms for the first time in nearly a decade. June is when the six-month-long season begins, but the true bulk of hurricane activity occurs from mid-August through September and into the

By CNN Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — As a taste of fall gives much of the United States a break from a hot, humid summer, some forecasters are already skipping ahead to winter, and a possible homecoming for an important atmospheric player: La Niña. La Niña has about coin-flip odds of emerging this fall,

CNN By CNN Meteorologist Briana Waxman and CNN’s Sarah Dewberry, Taylor Romine, Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — A towering wall of dust, known meteorologically as a haboob, swallowed parts of metro Phoenix Monday evening, plunging the city into near-zero visibility. The dust storm was quickly followed by severe thunderstorms that tore through the city, leaving

By CNN Meteorologist Briana Waxman and CNN’s Sarah Dewberry, Taylor Romine, Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — A towering wall of dust, known meteorologically as a haboob, swallowed parts of metro Phoenix Monday evening, plunging the city into near-zero visibility. The dust storm was quickly followed by severe thunderstorms that tore through the city, leaving behind

By CNN Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — A blast of fall-like weather is coming for much of the United States, and unlike the last brief break from summer heat, this cooldown will have some staying power. It will feel more like late September or early October as crisp air expands in the coming days,