Posted 4:07 PM 7/8/2025 by Chief Meteorologist Dr. Josh Eachus

You may occasionally look up at a thunderstorm and see a ragged, low-hanging cloud that seems ominous and may even look like a funnel cloud or tornado. If you see this in the summer on the Gulf Coast, since there just isn't enough wind moving around in the low (More)

Posted 8:38 PM 7/3/2025 by Meteorologist Malcolm Byron

Mother Nature’s fiercest storms can blossom in the blink of an eye. Take Hurricane Michael for instance, a powerful Category 5 storm that ravaged Florida in October 2018. Just three days prior, Michael was a tropical storm. 

Such rapidly developing storms can pose big problems. (More)...

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Posted 4:10 PM 6/26/2025 by WBRZ Staff

BATON ROUGE — This week in WBRZ history, Channel 2 was on the air for a little over a year when a Category 3 hurricane struck the capital region.

WBRZ anchorman Brooks Reed and photographer Bob Durham were the first journalists on the ground when Hurricane Audrey made landfall on (More)

Posted 10:19 AM 6/19/2025 by Meteorologist Malcolm Byron

UPDATE: Erick intensified overnight into a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds peaking at 145 mph. Afterward, the storm did weaken slightly. Hurricane Erick made landfall in extreme western Oaxaca, Mexico around 7 a.m. CDT Thursday with peak winds at 125 mph.