RALEIGH, N.C. -- Elsa strengthened into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season on Friday as it battered the eastern Caribbean, where officials closed schools, businesses and airports under the ...

Elsa strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday evening as it moved up Florida's west coast slowly. The storm was a tropical storm as it moved across Cuba Monday. Back over open water, the storm regained ...

Elsa weakened to tropical storm status Saturday morning, its wind speed falling to 70 mph as it started to rough up Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The storm is not projected to regain hurricane ...

A boat from Cuba capsized in the storm-hit Straits of Florida this week, spurring a search in which nine people were still missing Wednesday after 13 were rescued, the US Coast Guard said. Crews of ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Tropical Storm Elsa formed Thursday morning in the Atlantic Ocean. Elsa's July 1 formation is the earliest for any fifth-named storm on record, breaking a record set last year by ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency in several counties Saturday morning ahead of Tropical Storm Elsa. The system, which was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm on ...

Hurricane season runs from June 1 through Nov. 30. Most hurricanes occur between August and October, with September being the busiest month, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

MIAMI, Fla. — Elsa has strengthened into a hurricane, the first of the 2021 Atlantic season. The National Hurricane Center announced that the storm had become a Category 1 hurricane shortly before 8 a ...