Humberto becomes hurricane as it nears Texas
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Tropical Storm Humberto became Hurricane Humberto early on Thursday as it neared the Texas coast with maximum winds of 80 mph (128 kph).
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Gathering strength over the central Caribbean, Tropical Storm Ernesto steamed toward Jamaica Saturday and threatened to enter the Gulf of Mexico within days as the first hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic season.
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Hurricane Humberto blasted across the southeast Texas coast on Thursday, packing winds as strong as 135 kilometers (85 miles) per hour, the US National Hurricane Center said.
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Tropical Storm Ernesto picked up steam with surprising speed in the warm waters of the Atlantic and built toward hurricane strength Thursday as it swirled toward the Carolinas, forcing the closing of ports and campgrounds.
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A tropical storm bearing down on Florida formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, just in time for the official June 1 start of the Atlantic hurricane season.
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Hurricane Jeanne is bearing down on the Caribbean nation with 160-kilometre-an-hour winds and drenching rains. In Florida, residents have been alerted that hurricane conditions were possible in the next 36 hours.
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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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Hurricane Humberto brings heavy rain to already sodden Texas before  weakening and moving into Louisiana.
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Tropical Storm Humberto formed off the Texas coast Wednesday, promising to bring more rain and possibly flooding to a state coming off one of the wettest summers in more than 50 years.
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LAFAYETTE - As winds and rains from the ghost of once-Hurricane Ivan began to whip the Louisiana and Texas coast on Thursday, a small possibility began to loom that the diehard storm might circle again over open water and make a third landfall along the
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PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba - Hurricane Ivan whipped western Cuba with 257-kilometre-an-hour winds, ripping the roofs of tobacco barns and houses and drenching fields before moving into the Gulf of Mexico today, threatening offshore oil rigs and setting off an
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Hurricane Ivan skirted the western tip of Cuba on Monday and arced into the Gulf of Mexico with sustained winds of 160 mph, bearing down toward landfall on the US Gulf Coast later this week.
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Hurricane Lorenzo formed off Mexico's Gulf coast on Thursday, packing 75 mph (120 kph) winds and seen making landfall near Tuxpan port early Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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Tropical Storm Lorenzo, forecast to  become a hurricane before slamming into Mexico, dumped heavy  rain on the country&#39;s Gulf coast on Thursday but was unlikely  to affect oil production.
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A tropical cyclone could form Thursday as a tropical disturbance enters the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center and other weather models.
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WEATHER:The slow-moving hurricane weakened to a tropical storm as it crossed the state, knocking out power, ripping off roofs and dropping drenching rain.
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HOUSTON -- Tropical Storm Ivan Thursday crept toward the Houston area with the threat of making it a very rainy weekend. Forecasters are predicting heavy rain from Galveston to Houston to College Station.