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The chances of a busy hurricane season have increased, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Noaa has forecast ten to 17 named storms for 2019, of which between five and nine will reach hurricane stren...

Against the backdrop of what weather forecasters say will be an average hurricane season, the Minister of National Security and Emergency Measures Organization Chair, the Hon. Wayne Caines, JP, MP, recently convened an Emergency Measures Organisation...

Bermuda’s emergency agencies are prepared for the threat of major storms as the hurricane season gets under way, Wayne Caines told the House of Assembly today. Mr Caines, said he had chaired a meeting of the Emergency Measures Organisation Executive ...

Scientists have predicted a “near-normal” hurricane season this year with the Pacific El Niño counterbalancing warmer Atlantic waters. The US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Centre said that the Atlantic wou...

More than 20 soldiers from the British Army’s elite 24 Commando Royal Engineers are helping hone the disaster relief skills of the Royal Bermuda Regiment in the run-up to hurricane season. The UK soldiers will work with the RBR to share expertise and...

Britain learnt lessons from its much criticised 2017 Caribbean hurricane response and is better prepared for the next storm season, the Minister for the Overseas Territories has promised. Lord Ahmad suffered a baptism of fire in his first year in the...

The 2018 hurricane season has come to an end, with Bermuda escaping any direct impacts for the second consecutive year. James Dodgson, the director of the Bermuda Weather Service, said the area around the island has been “relatively” quiet this year,...

Huricane Oscar is expected to deliver rough seas to the island this week. However the storm is not a threat to the island, according to the Bermuda Weather Service. As of 6pm today, Oscar lay about 722 miles east southeast of Bermuda, and its closest...

A sub-tropical storm in the Atlantic was tonight upgraded to a storm. But Tropical Storm Oscar, earlier said to be a potential threat to Bermuda, had altered track and was no longer viewed as a danger. TS Oscar was said to be about 927 miles east sou...

Leslie was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane this morning. The meandering storm is not predicted to threaten the island, although rough seas mean a small craft warning remains in effect. Strong winds today are forecast to gradually ease by tomorrow ...

Island residents from countries battered by major storms said yesterday they continued to monitor reports from their homelands on the damage. Typhoon Mangkhut has claimed more than 60 lives in the northern Philippines and Hurricane Florence was blame...

As the peak of the 2018 hurricane season progresses, Britain is on standby as its Caribbean territories remain vulnerable after the devastation of hurricanes Irma and Maria a year earlier. In the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla and the Turks & Caic...