Hurricane Rick News

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.

'Hi, everybody, meteorologist Paul Douglas here, and yes' - dramatic pause - 'it's going to rain ...' Working without a script, Paul Douglas moves fluidly in a darkened TV studio, clicker in hand.

Storm watchers run from the deck at a hotel on Medano Beach as a large wave overtakes their perch as Hurricane Rick approaches Cabo San Lucas October 19, 2009, a popular tourist resort at the Southern tip of Baja California, Mexico.

October blew in with a Gale watch which resulted in a small craft advisory on the first Saturday of the month.

This satellite image depicts formation of a mild El Nio current in the Pacific Ocean in 2006, shown as the large swath of red through the center of the scene.

This image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Rick taken at 2 a.m. EDT Saturday Oct.

Officials at the National Hurricane Center say they're making their tropical storm advisories easier to read.

Josette Sheeran, executive director of the United Nation World Food Program, shows some of the high-energy biscuits that will be distributed to flood-hit areas of the Philippines.

I hope you get to enjoy today and tomorrow -- both days generally full of Autumnal sunshine and some fleeting warmth from high pressure to our south.

Bruce Springsteen canceled a performance scheduled for Monday night in Kansas City due to what the Sprint Center arena calls a death in his "immediate" family.

MapSpace! 10/22/2009 8:01 AM Flooding rain is not the only concern across the nation's southern midsection today.

THE CLOUD PATTERN HAS CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE...WITH AN EROSION OF THE COLD CLOUD TOPS IN THE WESTERN SEMICIRCLE AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE EYE IN GEOSTATIONARY IMAGERY.

Numerous showers and isolated thunderstorms moved into the area Wednesday night and were expected to persist through Thursday afternoon, said C.S. Ross, hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Shreveport.

MapSpace! 10/22/2009 3:56 PM The storm system that brought torrential rain and flooding to eastern Texas into Thursday morning will continue heading eastward through Friday.

Remnants of Hurricane Rick damaged homes, delayed schools, and closed roads Wednesday night and Thursday morning, bringing as much as 9 inches of rain to the thirsty lakes and rivers of the Highland Lakes.

Just one week after record cold and snow at Penn State and even the Baltimore suburbs , the threat of severe weather may erupt along the east coast.

The merger of a strong low pressure center and the remnants of Hurricane Rick should be complete by Thursday afternoon, taking the cloud cover, excessive humidity and heavy rain threat with it into the Mississippi Valley.

Three weather systems in the Pacific Ocean are churning - one a hurricane, another a tropical depression and a third a super typhoon - but none is causing the high surf that kicked up along south shores yesterday.

Previous Next Track and windspeed of Intense hurricane Rick Intense hurricane Rick is forecast to strike Mexico as a hurricane at about 06:00 GMT on 22 October.

MapSpace! 10/23/2009 3:00 AM Drenching thunderstorms shifting into the Southeast and the Ohio Valley today into tonight will threaten to cause flash flooding.