Spectacular satellite imagery shows three hurricanes spinning in the Pacific Ocean on Friday morning. The imagery was captured by the GOES-19 weather satellite, which belongs to the

A research team from Purdue University plans to visit an island group in the Pacific Ocean next month to examine a site that may contain remnants of the aircraft Amelia Earhart used to attempt a circumnavigation of the world in 1937.

The Pacific Ocean has had an unusual number of storms this year, while the Atlantic hasn't recorded a single full-blown hurricane. Scientists point to an exceptionally strong El Niño.

El Niño is a natural cycle that occurs every few years, changing precipitation and temperature patterns around the globe. It occurs when the Pacific Ocean heats up near the Equator and the prevailing winds there relax, even reverse, allowing the warmer waters to move east.

The wild and woolly Pacific basin – fueled by a powerful El Niño – continues to spew forth tropical cyclones of all shapes and sizes.

Three hurricanes are crammed between Hawaii and North America. Two have already become major hurricanes, and the third is strengthening.

A strengthening hurricane in the Pacific Ocean is set to bring more humid and uncharacteristic weather straight toward Southern California. Just weeks after Hurricane Marie battered the state with coastal flooding and high tides,