Hurricane Bill News

A 90-year-old Worcestershire man injured by gale-force winds on a sponsored climb has handed over more than A 5,500 to a county hospital.

All's quiet on the East Coast as the 2009 hurricane season comes to an official close today.

The Coast Guard fired Chief Boatswain's Mate James Weber from his post as officer in charge of Station Montauk in New York on Monday after an investigation into his decision to take a junior coxswain out into heavy surf last summer.

Monday marks the "man-made end point" for the 2009 Hurricane Season. Beginning June 1st for the Atlantic , the ocean basin has experienced a below normal season from what was forecasted by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration back in August 2009.

The Atlantic hurricane season ended Monday with barely a whimper: Not a single hurricane came ashore in the United States.

Monday, November 30th is the last day of the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season. A hurricane season that will be remembered as one of the quietest in almost two decades.

The Atlantic hurricane season ended Monday with barely a whimper: Not a single hurricane came ashore in the United States.

The 2009 Atlantic hurricane season ended Monday with just three hurricanes, the weakest of which killed the most people and did the most damage.

Published: Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 11:02 p.m. You can thank El Nino.

A must read if you like climatology and more technical discussions. Tony Gigi at the National Weather Service here in Philadelphia delivers a nice, lengthy read of the climatological analysis of the upcoming winter in Philadelphia.

Have a happy, healthy Thanksgiving season. As Thanksgiving nears, I have some thankful thoughts about the weather in eastern North Carolina in 2009.

Simone Pelletier had the chance to thank the Coast Guard crew that saved her life last August.

Simone Pelletier of Belfast got another boat ride from the United States Coast Guard on Friday, but this time she went out with her family for fun.

NASA GOES Project now offers real-time HDTV movies of the east- and west-coast "hurricane alley " regions.

Published: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 6:25 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 7:11 p.m. By the time what remains of Ida reaches North Carolina sometime Tuesday, the storm system is expected to have lost all of its tropical characteristics.

Tropical Depression One Formed May 28 about 400 miles east-northeast of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, it did not reach tropical storm strength before weakening the next day and dying at sea.

Tropical storm Ida has strengthned, and now Hurricane Ida is moving toward Central America.

With one month left in the official hurricane season, it is shaping up to be one of the quietest ever years for tropical storms in the Atlantic.

The 10 rip-related deaths versus one last year have officials looking for new ways to warn beachgoers about the deadly currents, which are often hard to spot.

When a hurricane hits South Florida , the employees at Beach Ace Hardware , two blocks from the ocean in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, work until the sheriff's department warns it is shutting the bridge that connects the beachfront town to the mainland.