HEADLINES

Ida has now weakened to a tropical depression. The storm made landfall in Nicaragua yesterday and will continue moving through eastern Honduras today.

Tropical Storm Grace is rushing across the northeastern Atlantic Ocean but should be absorbed within a day by a front.

Tropical Storm Nora is strengthening in the open Pacific far off Mexico's coast, but the system is not expected to threaten land.

Fred is a tropical storm at this point and will be weakening even more over the weekend.

Erika is still just barely a tropical storm. The system is expected to weaken over the next several days into a tropical depression as it moves off to the west/northwest.

Danny remains stationary and is just barely a tropical storm. Another area of showers and thunderstorms in the Central Atlantic is piquing interest.

Bill has weakened to a tropical storm as of 5am this morning. The storm will continue to fall apart as it moves off to the northeast into even cooler waters.

MIAMI (AP) -- A new tropical depression has formed over the Atlantic behind Tropical Storm Ana and both are expected to slowly strengthen over the next couple of days.

Forecasters say they're expecting Tropical Storm Guillermo to strengthen to a hurricane as it moves farther out to sea in the Pacific.

A tropical depression in the Atlantic has yet to strengthen but forecasters say it could become a tropical storm in the next few days.

Government forecasters are lowering their outlook for this Atlantic hurricane season after a quiet start with no named storms so far.

Hurricane Felicia is a major storm after gaining strength far out in the Pacific.

Andres has weakened to a tropical depression a day after becoming the first hurricane of the Eastern Pacific season.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the depression was centered about 215 miles south-southwest of the coastal city of Mazatlan at 5 a.m. Pacific time.

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Hurricane season officially begins Monday.

Florida is being considered as a model for how the federal government deals with hurricane evacuees.