The National Weather Service extended a flash flood warning for parts of the parishes of Iberia, Vermilion, Lafayette and St. Martin through 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday.
If you don’t remember October in south Louisiana ever being this hot, you’re right: it hasn't been.
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Michael gained new strength Monday and is expected to keep growing stronger ahead of an expected midweek strike on Florida's Panhandle, forecasters said.
An area of low pressure near Honduras has been increased to an 80 percent chance of forming into a tropical system in the next five days as it moves into the central Gulf of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center advised Friday evening.
Tropical Storm Kirk, still more than four days away from affecting the Lesser Antilles, continues chugging westward toward the Caribbean Sea.
Tropical Storm Kirk has formed in the eastern Atlantic and is forecast to chug through the Caribbean Sea into next week, the National Hurricane Center said Saturday morning.
The National Weather Service says more than 5.4 million people live in areas now under hurricane warnings or watches on the U.S. East Coast.
As the nation watched Hurricane Florence's ominous approach to the East Coast, Louisiana officials focused their attention instead on a pair of distant but threatening weather patterns — one just a wave of spinning atmospheric energy, the other al…
Tropical Storm Gordon never became a hurricane but it was deadly all the same, killing a child by blowing a tree onto a mobile home as it made landfall late Tuesday just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border.
A tropical storm warning for areas west of the mouth of the Mississippi River, including Lake Maurepas, has been discontinued as Tropical Storm Gordon makes it way to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the National Hurricane Center said in its 4 p.m. Tue…
Tropical Storm Gordon formed Monday morning near the Florida Keys, the National Hurricane Center announced in a special advisory.
Editor's note: This story is about what eventually became Tropical Storm Gordon and made landfall in Mississippi in early September.
Whoever coined that expression "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" failed to consider that, on some days, it's both.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Scorching heat was spreading Friday across much of the South, where temperatures are expected to soar over 100 degrees (37.8 Celsius) and persist into next week.
Those who thought the temperatures in May were particularly punishing, there's science to back that theory up.
Drivers who motor on through standing water in Lafayette Parish are now subject to penalty if they cause water to enter any building.
Faucets left dripping to prevent frozen pipes during a rare extended spell of freezing temperatures caused water shortages and headaches across south Louisiana on Wednesday.
A cold front will bring breezy, cloudy, cold and rainy conditions to south Louisiana starting Tuesday evening through early Friday, the National Weather Service says.
If you enjoyed the recent wave of fall-like weather in south Louisiana, get ready. Here it comes again.
Interstate 10 eastbound is closed just east of Gross Tete after two 18-wheelers crashed Wednesday afternoon.
A tropical depression in the Caribbean was expected to strengthen to Hurricane Nate by the time it enters the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday with landfall occurring somewhere between southeast Louisiana and Florida on Sunday, the National Weather Serv…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Heavy rain and historic, 185-mph winds lashed the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico's northeast coast Wednesday as Hurricane Irma roared through Caribbean islands on its way to a possible devastating hit on Florida.
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) — The most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history bore down on the islands of the northeast Caribbean late Tuesday, following a path predicted to then rake Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba…
Update, 7 a.m. Tuesday
As of 6 p.m. Friday, Hurricane Harvey has maximum sustained winds of 130 mph, making it a Category 4 storm. Once it makes landfall, Harvey will be the first major storm to hit the US since Hurricane Wilma in 2005.
Officials in Vermilion Parish on Louisiana's coast have called for a voluntary evacuation while a mandatory evacuation has been ordered for locations in Cameron Parish south of the Intracoastal Waterway as Hurricane Harvey heads for landfall in ne…
The National Hurricane Center's forecast Thursday evening for Hurricane Harvey calls for the storm to strike Texas and then move east toward Louisiana.
LATEST: Click here to read more about a change in Hurricane Harvey's forecast track late Thursday.
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After Harvey reformed into a tropical depression Wednesday morning, it was expected to be upgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday before heading toward Texas, according to a 10 a.m. update from the National Hurricane Center.
LATEST: Tropical Depression Harvey reforms in Gulf of Mexico; heavy rain, flooding concerns headed to South Louisiana
Get ready for some heat.
Beginning Monday night, the westbound left lane of Interstate 10, from the Vermilion Bridge to the Louisiana Avenue Bridge, will be closed at night for hydro demolition until Sunday. The closure is estimated to take place from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., we…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Crews were boarding up windows at homes and hotels across the southeastern Caribbean on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Don approached the region after forming in the Atlantic Ocean.
An area of low pressure out in the Atlantic shows a strong chance of developing into a tropical cyclone in the next two to five days, the National Hurricane Center says.
Welcome to July in Louisiana.
A record-breaking downpour stranded residents and motorists in Lafayette Parish on Thursday, with the worst of the storm hitting about 1:30 p.m. and the worst of the flooding hitting Carenco.
Both eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 will be closed this weekend near Sorrento, beginning at 9 p.m. Friday and opening back up at 5 a.m. Monday, weather permitting, the Department of Transportation and Development said.
It only takes one storm to change a life or a community, the National Weather Service notes.
The outside lanes of Ambassador Caffery Parkway in Lafayette between Johnston Street and the Vermilion River bridge are closed due to high water.
The entire state of Louisiana is under an "enhanced risk" for severe weather on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center.
City-parish government is reaching out to residents and business owners along the Evangeline Thruway for help in establishing priorities for revitalization projects being considered from Interstate 10 to south of Surrey Street.
MIAMI (AP) — A rare April tropical storm has formed over the north Atlantic.
One person died and Interstate 10 was closed in both directions for hours Wednesday evening after three passenger vehicles and two 18-wheelers went up in flames from a crash at LA 415, said Trooper First Class Bryan Lee, a Louisiana State Police s…
A potent springtime low-pressure system fueled with moisture from the Gulf of Mexico spawned at least seven tornadoes across central and southeast Louisiana on Sunday and early Monday as heavy winds and rain toppled trees and power lines, causing …
In a tour of damage from Sunday's storms, Gov. John Bel Edwards visited with St. Martin Parish officials and met with a man whose wife and daughter were crushed and killed when a tornado flipped their mobile home near Breaux Bridge.
Chance Broussard of Auto Xtreme Collision Center in Lafayette shared with KATC-TV a video of a small tornado tossing a car Sunday morning.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi woman who desperately tried to direct rescuers to her sinking vehicle after it skidded into a rain-swollen creek Monday was among four people killed in storms across the South.
A tornado watch is in effect until 3 a.m. for much of Louisiana, according to the National Weather Service.
