Tornadoes Were Just the Beginning. This Hurricane Season Is Going to be Stormy

Bryan Walsh

The residents of Moore, Oklahoma are still cleaning up from the EF5 tornado that tore through their town on May 20. 24 people died in the twisters, and thousands of homes and buildings were damaged or destroyed. The total bill may come in at over $2 billion, which would make the Moore tornado the most expensive in American history. So this may not be the best time, but the Moore tornado almost surely won’t be the last billion-dollar weather the U.S. faces in 2013. On Thursday the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual outlook on the summer Atlantic hurricane season—and it is not good...

The six-month hurricane season begins June 1, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates a 70 percent chance of 13 to 20 named storms.

No End to Wild Weather: Stormy Hurricane Season

No End to Wild Weather: Stormy Hurricane Season

U.S. sees seven to 11 Atlantic hurricanes in 2013

The 2012 Atlantic season produced 19 tropical storms, 10 of which became hurricanes and two became major hurricanes

Hurricane center: Beware of the storm surge

The National Hurricane Center is changing the way it talks about storm surge in hopes that emergency officials, the media and the public can better understand the dangerous phenomenon.