The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season continued a record-breaking pattern from 2020, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

With winds as high as 85 mph, Rick is expected to hit around Zihuatanejo.

It's forecast to hit Mexico’s southern Pacific coast by Monday.

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida are under flash flood watches.

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The Category 1 storm made landfall south of Houston on Monday night, and the storm surge flooded roads. The storm is now threatening Louisiana with up to 20 inches of rain across the state.

Hurricane Nicholas made landfall as a Category 1 storm, with footage showing powerful winds blowing over a gas station roof in Matagorda, Texas.

Trees were torn and tossed around by the ferocious winds of Hurricane Larry.

Hurricane Olaf is closing in for a strike on the Los Cabos resort region at the tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula

Small businesses from Louisiana to Connecticut are facing an uncertain recovery after being walloped by Hurricane Ida and its residual rains and flooding last week

More than 400,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana still don’t have power nine days after Hurricane Ida

ABC News' Ginger Zee gives the latest path of the hurricane, which is expected to pass the United States but create dangerous rip currents along the Eastern seaboard.

Communities in Louisiana are still reeling eight days after Hurricane Ida hit, as the death toll from the storm’s wrath rises to 68 people across eight U.S. states.

An investigation is underway after four people died at a Louisiana facility where nursing home residents were evacuated to before Hurricane Ida made landfall.

843 residents from seven nursing homes across four parishes are now being moved to safety. Twelve of the residents rescued required hospitalization.

The president will travel to New Orleans on Friday to survey damage left behind by the hurricane.

The aftermath of Hurricane Ida continues to cause destruction in the Northeast.

Meteorologists say natural and man-made forces made Ida deadly and devastating in the New York and New Jersey area even though the weakened storm made landfall more than 1,000 miles away

Sheriff’s officials are still searching for a man whose arm was ripped off during an alligator attack in the floodwaters of Hurricane Ida

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Stronger natural disasters will become more commonplace in the future as the planet continues to warm.

The city is racing to restore power and light after the Category 4 storm made landfall Sunday, leaving the city and its residents in the dark.

Emergency managment officials are urging Lousiana residents who lost power to take precautions as it might take weeks to restore the power.

A Louisiana sheriff says a man had his arm ripped off by a large alligator while walking through floodwaters from Hurricane Ida and is now missing

Hospitals in Louisiana are now juggling Hurricane Ida damage, as well as a COVID-19 surge in the region.

Ginger Zee reports on the latest path for Ida's remnants after the storm pummeled Louisiana and Mississippi.

Over 5,000 National Guard are assisting with search and rescue efforts across Louisiana and Mississippi after the storm made landfall as a powerful Category 4 hurricane on Sunday afternoon.

With more than 1 million customers in Louisiana and Mississippi having lost power, Hurricane Ida is sure to take a toll on the energy, chemical and shipping industries that have major hubs along the Gulf Coast

Billy Nungesser discusses the latest developments and rescue efforts as Tropical Storm Ida continues to pummel the state.

Emergency workers and volunteers in rural Tennessee are pushing to clean up as much debris as possible from recent deadly flooding before the remnants of Hurricane Ida threatened to interrupt recovery efforts with another dousing

ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee tracks the latest path of the storm and expected weather conditions.

Deanne Criswell, who serves as the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, discusses how the storm has impacted hospitals already on the brink due to COVID-19.

The officials discuss storm preparations as they track Hurricane Ida.

Officials from Jefferson Parish, part of the Greater New Orleans area, discuss the Category 4 storm preparations.

Ida is forecast to strengthen into a Category 4 hurricane before landfall in Louisiana.

Officials from St. Tammany Parish, New Orleans, discuss storm preparations.

Ginger Zee tracks the storm, which is now expected to hit Louisiana with winds over 150 mph.

Ida is now a Category 4 storm threatening Louisiana with flooding, storm surge and catastrophic winds on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

As Hurricane Ida approaches, the mayor discusses the preparedness of her community, as well as her COVID-19 concerns with hospitals already at capacity due to the pandemic.

In what officials are calling a “crisis situation,” Southern hospitals must prepare to juggle increasing COVID-19 patients, as well as any incoming emergencies due to the hurricane.

As Hurricane Ida intensifies, Baton Rouge citizens who have not already evacuated the area are preparing for the worst.

Ginger Zee looks back at how parts of New Orleans have evolved since Katrina.

His mother still hopes someone will answer the question of what happened to him.

Millions are preparing as Hurricane Ida gets closer to making landfall.

A great worry was potential damage to refineries and plants in its path.

ABC News' Rob Marciano tracks the hurricane, which may make landfall as a Category 4 storm in Louisiana.

“If you are voluntarily evacuating our city, now is the time to leave," New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said.

City officials are working ahead, closing levees, and the New Orleans mayor told residents: "It's time to shelter in place."

Louisiana hospitals that are dealing with a surge of COVID-19 are bracing for a major hurricane over the weekend. Louisiana has one of the highest COVID-19 case rates per capita in the country.