According the the National Hurricane Center, Tropical Storm Flossie could strengthen into a hurricane as early as Monday.

Meteorologists are monitoring two areas that could strengthen into tropical storms later this month and bring impacts to the U.S.

Several recent studies look at how climate change is redrawing the map. ... Quirks and Quarks 17:34 The world's major climate zones - polar, temperate and tropical - are transforming as we watch.

Map shows how the world will warm with the expansion of the tropical zone. AUSTRALIA’S NEW DESERT The effects of the growing tropical zone could also create problems for northern parts of Australia.

The new (map) is generally one half-zone warmer than the previous (map) throughout much of the United States, as a result of a more recent averaging period (1974–1986 vs. 1976–2005).

The global tropical climate zone is expanding. At the current rate, by 2100 its edge will stretch from Sydney to Perth. The world’s tropical zone is expanding, and Australia should be worried ...

Assuming that density of dead zones scales as a function of the length of shoreline, the paper proposes that there could be at least 370 undocumented tropical dead zones. “We need to look in the ...