Hurricane

Artificial Intelligence continues to chisel away at the hurricane forecast problem, with Google’s DeepMind flagship AI hurricane model once again leading the pack in 2026.

For only the third time in reliable records (since at least 1950), the Atlantic hurricane season has fallen silent – absent any active tropical depressions, named storms, or hurricanes – in the week centered on its traditional September 10th peak.

Dadiere Licona said homes remain destroyed as efforts to rebuild continue nearly one year after Hurricane Melissa slammed into Jamaica as a Category 5.

Edouard’s remnants continued to push inland over northeastern Texas early Thursday as it drags a tail of residual rainfall across flood-impacted communities of eastern Texas.

Small but blustery Edouard made landfall Tuesday afternoon at 2:20 PM CT as a 60 mph tropical storm near the mouth of the Sabine River along the border of Texas and Louisiana.

Tropical Storm Edouard – the 5th named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season – formed Monday evening about 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast, but as of daybreak Tuesday had not strengthened since its christening 12 hours earlier.

A large thunderstorm complex that moved off southeastern Louisiana late last week combined with a mid-level spin over the northern Gulf to produce a small but punchy surface low that could become a short-lived tropical depression or storm later today or early Tuesday before moving inland over the Upper Texas Coast.

Tropical Storm Dolly, the fourth named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, formed late Thursday morning over the central tropical Atlantic between Africa and the Caribbean.

Tropical Storm Dolly formed Thursday morning in the Atlantic far from land, forecasters confirmed.

A strong tropical disturbance that rolled off Africa to start the week – since designated Invest 96L by the National Hurricane Center – is doing its best Little-Engine-That-Could impression this morning and appears to be nearing tropical depression or storm status in the eastern Atlantic.

Invest 96L – a strong tropical wave plodding westward through the eastern Atlantic – has changed little in organization since Tuesday as model support for development this week continues to wane.

MIAMI (AP) — The next tropical storm that develops in the Atlantic this hurricane season will be named Dolly, but the timing is pure coincidence and has no connection to Dolly Parton’s death Tuesday.

The first Cabo-Verde-style storm is taking shape over the eastern Atlantic – a strong disturbance designated Invest 96L by the National Hurricane Center – and could become the Atlantic’s next named storm in the days ahead.

After a historically slow start – the slowest in almost 40 years by overall tropical activity – the Atlantic hurricane season will make another attempt to jump start its engine this week, first with a disturbance in the central subtropical Atlantic and then later this week with a strong disturbance rolling westward through the main development region of the deep tropics between Africa and the Caribbean.