When the fiercest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic is bearing down on you, a salvaged armchair under a wood-and-tin awning might seem a poor choice of shelter. But that's where Don E.

Depending on where they form, tropical storms are also known as hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons. Tropical storms form over warm oceans and travel from east to west. Tropical storms bring with ...

This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. By the time Hurricane Sandy veered toward the Northeast coast of the United States last October 29, it had mauled ...

Dr. Jill Trepanier, associate professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University, noted ...