CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — In this week's Hot Topics in the Tropics, we haven't had a whole lot of 'hot topics' to track here. Now that August has begun, that means hurricane season is kicking into high ...

Earth's tropical regions drive some of the most powerful weather and climate variability globally. Among these, the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) is a dominant intraseasonal climate signal, ...

Remember a few weeks ago when the tropics were quiet in the Atlantic, yet we had three to four tropical systems in the Pacific, and now that trend has seemingly flipped? There's a reason for that.

The hurricane map in the Atlantic Ocean may be nearly blank now, but forecasters say that may not last much longer, as several signs point to an uptick in activity across the basin. "The tropical ...

The Atlantic hurricane season is nearing its climatological peak, but things were strangely quiet in the tropics as of Sunday. A tropical wave in the eastern Atlantic that had been expected to become ...

For the first time since 2016, the peak of hurricane season has come and gone without a single named tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean. Tropical Storm Fernand, which dissipated back on Aug. 28, was ...