Faced with favourable conditions and very warm waters, Katrina underwent rapid intensification over the course of two days. This spell of strengthening brought the storm from a low-grade hurricane to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hurricane Katrina left scars across Louisiana and Mississippi that are still evident 20 years later. Katrina claimed at least ...

Hurricane Katrina left scars across Louisiana and Mississippi that are still evident 20 years later. Katrina claimed at least 1,392 lives — both during the storm and in its aftermath — and was America ...

It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, the costliest and fourth-deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, hit New Orleans as a Category 3 storm. Ivor van Heerden may know more about Louisiana’s ...

It was the storm long feared in a city situated on the vulnerable Gulf Coast, with many areas built below sea level.

It’s been two decades since Hurricane Katrina brought catastrophe to the Gulf Coast region, killing at least 1,800 people and displacing hundreds of thousands. About 19 hours before the storm first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meteorologist Richard Knabb was working his first season as a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center when Hurricane Katrina ...

On Aug. 19, 2005, a tropical wave formed in the Caribbean, one of many that hurricane season. But this one would evolve into one of the most devastating storms in U.S. history. Ten days later, after ...

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is here, and most experts are expecting another active season. The 2024 season spawned Helene and Milton. Two storms that took their place in infamy given the ...

NEW ORLEANS — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm’s anniversary Friday with solemn memorials, ...

Ian Birrell is a freelance foreign correspondent and political columnist, and is former deputy editor of the Independent. This commentary was adapted from an article in UnHerd. After Hurricane Katrina ...

“What makes a disaster a tragedy? A tragedy is when we fail to do what we should be doing.” This is how New Orleans community organizer Malik Rahim prefaces the calm before “Hurricane Katrina: Race ...