Meteorologist Chita Craft has a list of everything you need to have in your hurricane preparedness kit: You may be asked or told to evacuate so that you're out of an area that a hurricane or tropical storm is bearing down on.

Sunday marks the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season. June 1 is the first day of hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, the official start of a six-month period that can bring some of the most destructive and costly natural disasters to American shores.

Term Pleasant weather will continue tonight with temperatures in the 60s for your Monday morning. Skies will clear out overnight. Calm winds give way to a light

In Brief: Saharan dust travels thousands of miles from Africa to the Americas each spring and summer. Once or twice a summer, one of these SALs makes a complete 5,000-plus mile journey as far west as the Gulf Coast, from Florida to Texas.

Tropical systems are categorized by wind speed, but experts say there's much more to the story when it comes to storm impacts.

Tropical cyclone: This reference applies to many storms that involve revolving clouds that are born out of the tropics and subtropics. A tropical cyclone can describe a tropical depression, tropical storm or hurricane. The storms are distinguished by wind speeds.

Storm surge is one of the deadliest impacts of hurricanes. Find out what it looks like, who’s most at risk and the plan to fight it.

Atlantic hurricane season begins during a tumultuous period at the National Weather Service, following significant cuts at the country's forecasting agency.