Tropical Storm Cindy

“The Atlantic is awfully warm this year,” said Kerry Emanuel, a meteorologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, adding that it’s partly a result of global warming, natural variability and the ocean’s recovering from sulfate aerosols pollution that cooled it decades ago.

Forecasters say it is the first time there are two storms in the tropical Atlantic in June since record keeping began. Cindy is expected to remain a tropical storm as it heads northeast into open waters. Officials say Bret damaged homes in some islands.

Gulf Coast states were in for a third day of rough weather as Tropical Storm Cindy sloshed ashore early Thursday in southwestern Louisiana.Already blamed…

From the Florida Panhandle to eastern Texas, residents and government officials along the northern Gulf Coast kept an eye on slow-moving Tropical Storm…