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Bermudians caught up in the devastating flooding that has ravaged Texas spoke yesterday about their terrifying brush with Hurricane Harvey and the aftermath of the storm. David Strong told The Royal Gazette that he had lost his car in the flooding wh...

Category 4 Hurricane Irma is expected to pass 875 miles south of Bermuda on Thursday morning. But the Bermuda Weather Service’s 6pm update last night warned that the storm, due to be closest at 11am, could move closer to the island after that. Irma —...

Hurricane Harvey will be the most costly natural disaster in US history, predicts AccuWeather. It believes the impact on the country’s gross domestic product will be $190 million, and as a result will force the Federal Reserve to postpone the next in...

Work to repair hurricane damage at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo from the past few years is due to begin on September 5 and will last about a month. During that time, all major exhibits will remain open but the lawn area next to the children’...

Hurricane Gert is no threat to Bermuda as the closest point of approach has passed. The category one storm was forecast to pass 281 nautical miles to the north-northwest of the island at 8am and had been deemed a potential threat. In its noon updat...

Tropical Storm Gert was upgraded yesterday morning to a Category 1 hurricane, but is only expected to make a distant pass by the island. As of 6pm last night, the closest point of approach to Bermuda was expected to be on Wednesday at 8am. At that ti...

An “above average” Atlantic hurricane season is likely, with two to five storms potentially evolving into major systems. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week forecast 14 to 19 named storms, with five to nine developing into h...

The 2017 hurricane season is expected to be busier than average, according to the US-based National Hurricane Centre. According to a statement released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, forecasters are predicting a 45 per cent c...

Hurricane Preparedness Week will be observed this week, the Ministry of National Security has advised. The Ministry said the event is happening earlier than usual due in part to the increased activity surrounding the America’s Cup and also to coincid...

An early forecast for the 2017 hurricane season has predicted a slightly below-average number of named storms this year. The forecast, released yesterday by Colorado State Univesity, estimates that the Atlantic will experience around 11 named storms ...

A boat sent to the bottom five months ago by Hurricane Nicole is afloat once more, although the cost of the exercise is yet to be tallied. “Getting the engines running is my next mission,” Jepheth Newton said after his vessel, the Esperanza, settled ...

The US-based National Hurricane Centre has unveiled new policies, which could help give Bermudians more advanced warning of impending storms. Under the new policies, unveiled earlier this month, the NHC will issue advisories for systems with the pote...