NOAA offers some good news for cruisers: conditions in the atmosphere and the ocean favor a near-normal hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin this season, NOAA's Hurricane Research Division reports. NOAA’s outlook predicts a less active season compared to recent years.

Tourists are getting out of Cancun and other Mexican resorts ahead of Hurricane Rina. One tourism official estimates that 10,000 tourists have left Mexico's most popular tourist destinations. Lines snaked from ticket counters in Cancun's crowded airport yesterday as jumbo airliners heading to Canada and Europe waited.

As Hurricane Rina continues to strengthen and a hurricane warning was issued for part of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, Carnival Cruise Line changed itineraries for eight ships and Celebrity Cruises changed the itinerary for Celebrity Millennium.

Tropical Storm Maria is impacting the itinerary of Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Gem. The ship, which departed from New York on Sunday, will avoid the path of the storm by sailing to the Bahamas and Florida instead of Bermuda.

A greatly weakened Hurricane Katia was expected to pass between the US east coast and Bermuda in the next two days without making landfall, forecasters from the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.

The latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center and analysts at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have included probabilities that Hurricane Katia could potentially make landfall in the New York City region.