Hurricane watch issued in the Caribbean
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The Bahamian government has issued a hurricane watch in the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday. The watch issued at 11 a.m. EDT means that hurricane conditions of winds of at least 74 mph are possible within 36 hours.
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MIAMI, FL, Sun. Aug. 29, 5 am: A tropical storm watch may be required for portions of the northern Leeward Islands later today as the center of another hurricane, Hurricane Frances inched closer to the islands.
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Tropical Storm Jeanne has become a hurricane, raising the threat to the Dominican Republic, Haiti and hundreds of islands in the northern Caribbean.
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Gulf Coast residents kept a watchful eye and the oil industry began making preparations Thursday as forecasters warned that a weather system swirling over waters west of Florida could become a tropical storm.
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An estimated 14 million people across the Caribbean, including Jamaica (population of 2.7 million), Cayman Islands (43,000), and Cuba (11 million), are bracing for the impact of Hurricane Ivan as it tracks towards the Florida peninsula, the Census Bureau
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Stores and schools closed, radio stations broadcast warnings and Barbadians readied their homes as Hurricane Ivan charged across the Atlantic on Monday toward Barbados and the Caribbean's eastern islands.
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Tropical Storm Chris swept through the eastern Caribbean on Wednesday, forcing cruise ships to change course and tourists to evacuate small islands off the coast of Puerto Rico as it threatened to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.
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A tropical storm watch is likely for the Mexican coast Wednesday as a tropical depression gains strength in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center reported.
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With Hurricane Ivan expected to continue its devastating track across the Caribbean and pass near or over western Cuba on Monday, meteorologists hope that an El NiÃ±o episode expected in the Pacific could disrupt the conditions that have produced a bumper
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A tropical storm watch was posted for the Carolinas early Saturday as Subtropical Storm Gabrielle gathered in the Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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The number of hurricanes churning through   the Caribbean toward the United States this year is likely to   be less than once feared and may even be less than normal, a   noted U.S. hurricane research team said on Friday.
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Hurricane Isaac strengthened slightly in the Atlantic east of Bermuda on Sunday, forecasters said, and a tropical storm watch was issued for southeastern Newfoundland.
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A tropical storm watch was issued for southeastern Newfoundland on Sunday as Hurricane Isaac moved north in the Atlantic, forecasters said.
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Jamaica is bracing for Hurricane Ivan, as the Category Five storm cuts a path across the Caribbean to possibly strike the island Friday.
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Description: Jamaicans brace themselves for Hurricane Ivan, expected to make a direct hit on the island Friday afternoon. On Thursday, the Category 4 storm devastated Grenada, killing 13 people and damaging most of the homes on the island.
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The World Bank launches an emergency insurance fund to help Caribbean nations pay for key services after a hurricane.
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COLUMBIA, SC Aug. 28, 2004 - A hurricane watch was issued for the South Carolina coast Saturday as forecasters predicted Tropical Storm Gaston would make landfall near Charleston on Sunday night.