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A wind mitigation inspection could help protect your home and lower insurance costs ahead of hurricane season.
With the influx of hurricane forecasts, there are ways to manage the stress.
Advances in forecast models, satellite data, and radar technology have transformed hurricane predictions since 2005.
After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a $15 billion levee and surge protection system
FOX 8’s “Weathering the Storm” covers hurricane season prep.
The NHC implements a revised graphic to broaden understanding of hurricane impacts beyond the traditional cone of uncertainty.
Rapid intensification presents emergency managers and Gulf Coast residents with a new problem when making evacuation plans.
NOAA predicts up to 25 named storms for the 2024 hurricane season, the highest forecast ever, due to the shift from El Niño to La Niña and record warm Atlantic temperatures.
Rates have increased due in part to the higher storm risk along the Gulf
This year’s cycle highlighted multiple indicators in the pattern from the central Gulf eastward across Florida.
Radar
With what could be a very active year, the Fox 8 Weather Authority team is here to get you ready.
Data from the planes are instrumental in hurricane forecasting.
We’ve experienced very active seasons for the past several years. The forecast is different in 2023, but as we all know, it only takes one.
A formidable hurricane-resistant house is being built on the Gulf Coast.
Discounts might be worth the cost of wind mitigation upgrades.
Hurricane season begins June 1, and city officials say 90% of all pumps are in working order
The CSU hurricane researchers call for 13 named storms, 6 hurricanes and 2 major storms
Ida made history as it crossed the coast at Port Fourchon as a category four storm with winds sustained at 150 mph.
Across the Atlantic Basin, we have had six above-normal hurricane seasons in a row. And we could be heading for another one.
Although officials throughout the area encouraged voluntary evacuations, they say as many as 50-70% of residents in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes stayed through the storm.
Ida was another example of the threat storm surge poses to those communities and highlights the lack of protection from those people.
A major hurricane strike continues to be the greatest existential threat to our region.
After deaths of elderly residents in the wake of Hurricane Ida, the Louisiana Department of Health and the city of New Orleans discuss changes made for this hurricane season.
Hurricane Center warns West Bank levees could be overtopped if a carbon copy of Ida veered 15 miles to the east