Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Jan. 14, 2016, something unusual happened. A hurricane was named. Hurricane Alex was the ...

The eye of Hurricane Alex steered hundreds of miles clear of the center of the BP oil spill, but it still managed to hold up cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. Alex was by no means a whopper, ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hurricane Alex is now history, though while it was churning its way into the record books, it was concocting a weather pattern behind the scenes that might come as good news for ...

A rare January hurricane formed far out in the Atlantic on Thursday, and U.S. officials said it was the first hurricane to form in the month of January since 1938. Hurricane Alex's maximum sustained ...

MATAMOROS, Mexico -- The first Atlantic hurricane of the year grew to a powerful Category 2 storm as it neared Mexico's Gulf coast and south Texas on Wednesday, whipping up high waves that frustrated ...

MIAMI, Fla. - Alex has become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season and is churning through the western Gulf, taking aim at the Mexico-Texas border and far away from the massive oil spill. Alex ...