As Tropical Storm Debby strengthens into a Category 1 hurricane, residents across the southeastern United States brace for potentially "life-threatening" catastrophic flooding and damaging winds.

State ranking: What's the chance of named tropical storm ... who works with the USA TODAY Network. Based on a 30-year period from 1991 to 2020, an average Atlantic hurricane season has 14 named ...

Although not part of a tropical system, the winds carry the intensity of a tropical storm and threatens to impact ... fire danger across much of the state.

Of those 17 storms ... State University meteorologist Phil Klotzbach told USA TODAY this week that the Atlantic Ocean is "not as warm as it was last year at this time" but that most of the ...