July is a unique month in the Atlantic hurricane season. It can be a forgiving month for the U.S., a month when storms begin to form farther away, temporarily lessening the risk closer to home.

Storm surge is the deadliest and most destructive force in tropical cyclones, often responsible for the majority of ...

No major hurricane on record had struck before August on the Pacific coast of Mexico until Erick did so on this mid-June Thursday as a category 3, after peaking as a 145 mile-per-hour (mph) category 4 ...

Powerful Hurricane Erick made landfall in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca early Thursday as a major hurricane before moving ...

Hurricane Erick made landfall in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca early Thursday as a major hurricane before moving inland ...

Authorities in southern Mexico were still assessing damage and watching rising rivers as rain from the remnants of Hurricane ...

The system is expected to generate severely destructive winds as the core makes landfall in Mexico on Thursday.

This is the earliest fifth-named storm since July of 1956. The average date for the fifth-named storm is July 23.

Erick rapidly intensified from a 40 mph tropical storm on June 17 into a Category 4 hurricane by midnight on June 19. Six ...

The storm had been a Category 4 hurricane as it bore down from the eastern Pacific toward Mexico. The authorities ordered ...

After undergoing rapid intensification, Erick made landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast on Thursday as a Category 3 hurricane.

Hurricane Erick is back to Tropical Storm strength after making landfall in Mexico. FOX 4 meteorologist Dan Henry takes a ...