Max Mayfield

Hurricane Charley battered Central Florida tonight, packing 105 mph winds that tore off roofs, knocked down trees and left tens of thousands of residents without power. There were widespread reports of trees falling on homes and storm-related fires, as...

Hurricane Charley bullied its way up Florida's midsection Friday, flipping small airplanes, tearing off roofs, knocking down trees and flooding roads as it headed from coastal Charlotte County through Orlando and Daytona Beach. At least three people were...

Bill Proenza dijo que pelear para asegurar que los pronósticos fueran lo más acertados posible y decir las cosas como las piensa fue lo que lo metió en problemas de nuevo. Esta vez fue despedido de su puesto como mánager principal del Servicio Nacional...

Bill Proenza said fighting to ensure forecasts are as accurate as possible and speaking his mind has gotten him into trouble again. This time, he was fired as a top manager for the National Weather Service. Proenza, 68, was ousted as National...

The Sun Sentinel brings some star power to the poem ''Twas the Night Before Christmas' by gathering some of South Florida's most famous people to recite the classic holiday tale. Watch the video here. You'll see local greats such as former Miami...

Rick Knabb, a veteran tropical forecaster and most recently The Weather Channel’s hurricane expert, has been named director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami-Dade County. He replaces Bill Read, who is retiring as of June 1. “For as...

The National Hurricane Center is looking for a new director. After four storm seasons, Bill Read is calling quits as head of the hurricane center, prompting a national search for his replacement. “I’ve done pretty much all I set out to do in...

NEWARK, CALIF. — Hemant Shah is in the business of creating catastrophes. The computers at Shah's Silicon Valley company, Risk Management Solutions Inc., contain mathematical models of every U.S. disaster from the 1812 earthquake that toppled...

The satellite picture told the whole story: From the Florida Keys to Jacksonville, the behemoth called Frances smothered just about every one of Florida's 65,758 square miles. "To have a hurricane this large and this strong covering an entire state . . ....

Hurricane Frances, a sluggish and super-sized storm, may leave as its legacy a singular image: The entire state of Florida, 435 miles from Tallahassee to Key West, enveloped in rain and wind. "The whole state will be impacted by this before it's over,"...

-------------------- UPDATE FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: Hurricane Jeanne trekked westward today on a path that could lead to Florida's east coast by Sunday, setting off another round of storm preparations in a state still reeling from three earlier...

(Published Aug. 24, 1992) By now you probably have met Hurricane Andrew. Unfortunately. To the people who know him best, the hurricane forecasters who have been tracking him for eight days, Andrew is powerful, nasty, compact, speedy and surprising. A...