U.S. government forecasters say they expect the Atlantic hurricane season to be busier than they first thought.

The fast-moving storm Elsa lashed New York City and New England with heavy rain and high winds, flooding streets, toppling trees and hindering some rail service.

Tropical Storm Elsa has since carved a destructive path up the East Coast after killing one person in Florida and injuring several others in Georgia.

Tropical Storm Elsa is carving a destructive path up the East Coast after killing at least one person in Florida and spinning up a tornado in Georgia that flipped recreational vehicles, tossing one of them into a lake.

Tropical Storm Elsa is carving a destructive and soaking path up the East Coast after killing at least one person in Florida and spinning up a tornado at a Georgia Navy base that flipped recreational vehicles upside-down and blew one of them into a lake.

Weather forecasters say a storm that has been lashing Florida over the past day has intensified into a hurricane.

Tropical Storm Elsa has swept across a mostly rural section of western Cuba with strong rain and winds, and it is now over the Florida Straits for a possible close brush with the lower Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas on Tuesday.

Cuba has evacuated 180,000 people amid fears that Tropical Storm Elsa could cause heavy flooding as it passes over the island Monday, after battering several Caribbean islands, killing at least three people.

Tropical Storm Elsa is battering the southern coasts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, downing trees and blowing off roofs as it speeds through the Caribbean, killing at least three people.

Officials in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are warning people to plan for possible evacuations as the tiny islands hit recently by massive volcanic eruptions prepares for potential flooding and landslides from Tropical Storm Elsa, which was whirling toward the eastern Caribbean.