Gulf of Mexico

Rain chances for Opening Day increasing

2013-04-01 07:15:00

Rain chances for Opening Day at Oriole Park at�Camden Yards may be increasing, but there is still some uncertainty on how significantly a moist system from the Gulf of Mexico could affect the region. Even so, rain could start to clear in time for the 3:...

Traveling weather or not

2013-03-14 13:34:00

Winter skiing, springtime on the links, summer sailing and autumn leaf-peeping — the weather forecast is the driving force behind the planning of many vacations. But when it comes to predicting the weather, WBAL meteorologist Tony Pann takes it all...

BP is not a criminal -- but its executives might be

2012-11-22 03:00:00

The Justice Department has entered into the largest criminal settlement in U.S. history with the giant oil company BP, in connection with the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and caused the worst oil spill in American history....

Isaac still tracking west of Fla., but forecast not unanimous

2012-08-23 12:05:00

The latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center calls for Tropical Storm Isaac to pass by Florida's west coast toward Alabama and Louisiana, but there is disagreement from at least one meteorologist on that. The hurricane center's 2 p.m. update on...

For Boog Powell, Key West is favorite place to travel

2012-08-12 00:00:00

He's a legendary Baltimore Oriole, has starred in Miller Lite beer commercials, and in recent years, has become a barbecue king. Yet to fans in Baltimore and beyond, John Wesley Powell Sr., is simply "Boog" — friendly and down-to-earth, despite all...

Harris feels pressure on water plan

2011-07-27 17:15:00

Legislation proposed by Rep. Andy Harris that would direct federal money to study oxygen-starved "dead zones" in the Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Mexico is facing criticism from some environmentalists who are concerned that the measure would...

Tropical Storm Don forms in the Gulf of Mexico

2011-07-27 16:22:10

The fourth named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season formed today in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Don was located about 120 miles north of Cozumel, Mexico, and 755 miles east southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas. Hurricane......

More action in the tropics

2011-09-07 16:22:12

As if we didn'ty have enough to contend with after Irene, and with more rain and flooding from what remains of Lee, the tropical Atlantic continues to gin up more storms.Hurricane Katia continues to spin its way across the Atlantic.......

Atlantic storm pops up on Opening Day

2011-06-01 16:22:10

Floridians are looking at an unusual storm system moving onto the peninsula from the Atlantic Ocean today, the first official day of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season. This weird disturbance actually began as a squall in Michigan. The concentration of...

Welcome to Sarasota, hon

2010-01-24 00:00:00

The Seminoles called it home before the Spanish moved in. Then came the Americans. Now the Cincinnati Reds have pulled up stakes to make way for the Orioles of Baltimore. Welcome to Sarasota, Fla., hon. The men of orange and black will play their games...

Temperature records could fall today

2010-09-24 16:22:18

The National Weather Service is predicting that high temperature records will fall Friday at all three regional airports. The record at BWI-Marshall for this date is 95 degrees. That's also the forecast high for the day, but Sterling's prognosticators...

Business as usual in the Gulf

2011-04-20 12:40:00

A year ago today, the nation gasped in collective horror at the catastrophic explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, the loss of 11 workers' lives, and the beginning of what would become a months-long gush of some 200 million gallons of crude oil...

St. George is a long, skinny barrier island, drifting between Apalachicola Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, just south of Apalachicola. Skip the developed middle of the island and stick to the northeast end, where St. George Island State Park protects nine miles of broad beach.

2013-04-29 13:29:20

Offshore rigs such as these in the Gulf of Mexico pay federal royalties.

2012-12-06 14:43:07

and the US gulf states. Rising waters from Hurricane Isaac have spilled over a levee south of New Orleans and inundated a residential area that had been ordered evacuated.

2012-08-29 00:00:00