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Atlantic tropical storms Bret and Cindy formed in the Atlantic ocean this week. This activity starting near Africa is more common of late summer.
The western heatwave in the United States was broken by the drenching rain and cooler temperatures brought by Tropical Storm Kay.
One death has been reported so far from the storm. Gordon's winds were just below hurricane-force last night when it made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border.
The storm made landfall near Mozambique in southeast Africa this week, causing at least 7 deaths. Hundreds of miles away, Peter Lowenstein captured strange and shifting skies.
Karen is expected to hit the Gulf Coast near southeast Louisiana, with a second possible landfall near Mobile, Alabama, Saturday night and Sunday morning.
If Flossie hits the Big Island as a tropical storm, it will be the first tropical storm to strike Hawaii directly since 1958. Heavy rains, gusty winds, mudslides, dangerous surf.
We still have plenty of time to monitor Tropical Storm Dorian before it hits any land areas. It is definitely a storm everyone should pay close attention to.
Watch a 20-second video of Tropical Storm Andrea from June 4 - June 6, a view from space.
Tropical Storm Isaac is expected to make landfall late Tuesday or Wednesday, which is the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It's a much weaker storm.
Tropical Storm Debby remains stationary and will produce 10 - 15 inches of rainfall, with some areas seeing over two feet through the entire week.
Tropical Storm Beryl is intensifying, with winds just below hurricane status, as it pushes into the U.S. Southeast.
Subtropical Storm Beryl is second named storm of 2012's hurricane season. Last time we saw two named storms in Atlantic prior to June was back in 1908 and 1887.
Tropical Storm Washi - known in the Philippines as Sendong - brought flooding and mudslides that resulted in over 650 deaths and 800 still missing.
A rare "medicane" formed in the Mediterranean Sea and is producing strong winds and rain in southeast France. Tropical storm Sean could become a hurricane.
Hurricane Rina, the 17th named storm and sixth hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, weakened into a tropical storm on October 27, 2011.
Tropical Storm Lee produced wildfires in Texas, tornadoes in the Southeast, and significant flooding from Louisiana northeast into New York.
At least 30 are dead and 50 missing from Tropical Storm Talas' passage over Japan this weekend. Search-and-rescue work is ongoing.
Lee could cause flooding along U.S. Southeast's Gulf of Mexico on Labor Day Weekend 2011. It could become a Category 1 hurricane before it moves inland.
A NOAA satellite captured this wondrous image of what might be a newly forming hurricane, Katia, building today in the eastern Atlantic.
UPDATE: Sunday, August 28, 5:40 p.m. EDT (21:40 UTC). Tropical Storm Irene has been gradually weakening and is beginning to lose tropical characteristics.