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The United Kingdom and Ireland are bracing for Hurricane Ophelia, which is already washing thousands of jellyfish-like Portuguese man o’ wars onto beaches. The storm is expected to maintain hurricane force winds until it reaches the North Atlantic but the unusually strong winds coming from the Atlantic have been pushing the poisonous sea creatures onto […] -
U.S. auto sales, which have been weak all year, received an unexpected gift after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma struck the United States. -
Tropical Storm Nate is bearing down on the U.S. Gulf Coast with Louisiana in its sights and ambitions to be upgraded to a hurricane, according to the latest update from the National Hurricane Center. “Reports from Air Force Reserve and NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that maximum sustained winds are now near 50 mph with […] -
SAN JOSE —Tropical Storm Nate killed at least 22 people in Central America on Thursday as it pummeled the region with heavy rain while heading toward Mexico’s Caribbean resorts and the U.S. Gulf Coast, where it could strike as a hurricane this weekend. In Nicaragua, at least 11 people died, seven others were reported missing […] -
The National Weather Service said that Florida’s Gulf Coast could be potentially impacted by another hurricane—just weeks after Hurricane Irma slammed the state. A new tropical depression has formed in the Caribbean Sea. Early weather forecasts show that it might become a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico as it heads for Florida’s Gulf Coast, […] -
Mandatory evacuations were ordered as Hurricane Maria gets near North Carolina, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in an update on Monday, Sept. 25. A tropical storm warning was issued for Cape Lookout to Duck and the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds. A tropical storm watch was issued for the area between Duck and the […] -
Hurricane Maria, after slamming Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, could threaten the U.S. East Coast later in the week. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) in an 11 a.m. ET update on Sunday, the hurricane is now “slightly weaker” and is moving northward. It has winds of 105 mph—Category 2 strength—and is moving […]
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Hurricane Lee formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said in a 5 a.m. update. Lee is now a Category 1 storm with winds of 85 mph, located about 860 miles east of Bermuda and 1,370 miles west of the Azores islands. It’s moving very slowly south. “It is not a […] -
A second powerful storm in as many weeks was bearing down on a string of battered Caribbean islands, with forecasters saying that Maria had strengthened into a hurricane on Sunday and would intensify before hitting the Leeward Islands on Monday night. Maria was about 275 miles east-southeast of the Leeward island of Dominica with maximum […] -
The Lone Star State is getting ready for Tropical Storm Harvey, which looks likely to become Hurricane Harvey, by pre-emptively declaring a state of disaster for 30 counties that will lay in the storm’s path. “Texans believe in taking action and always being prepared in the event of an emergency,” Governor Gregg Abbott said in a statement. […] -
Do you wish you could be just like Dorothy Gale in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and go on strange adventures in some far-off magical land, but you don’t live in an area that is close to twisters, hurricanes, and/or cyclones? Well, do we have some good news for you! This summer is said to […] -
NEW YORK—Superstorm Sandy left the city with a big scar—44 lives and $19 billion destroyed in a single storm event—and a profound lesson about the power of nature. Or at least it should have been. As the hurricane season peaks, four years after Sandy, one in four New Yorkers still take hurricane preparation lightly. And […] -
HILO, Hawaii—Nina Wild and Andreas Maeder were planning to go out for a nice dinner after flying to Hawaii from Switzerland. But the manager of the bed and breakfast where they stayed near Hawaii Volcanoes National Park told them that wasn’t a good idea. “She laughed and told us ‘No, no, we have a hurricane. […] -
DEKLE BEACH, Fla.—The first hurricane to hit Florida in more than a decade wiped away beachside buildings and toppled trees onto homes Friday before plowing inland on a path that could send it rolling up the densely populated East Coast with heavy rain, high winds and flooding. Hermine (her-MEEN) quickly weakened to a tropical storm […] -
The launch of the GOES-R geostationary satellite in October 2016 could offer a whole new way to predict hurricanes, providing information at time and space scales not previously possible. -
MIAMI—A rare January hurricane formed far out in the Atlantic on Thursday, and U.S. officials said it was the first hurricane to form in the month of January since 1938. Hurricane Alex’s maximum sustained winds were near 85 mph (140 kph). A hurricane warning was issued for Portugal’s mid-Atlantic Azores Islands, where the Civil Protection Service issued a […] -
Tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons have swept in at precisely the right time to influence important battles in history. -
Record-breaking Hurricane Patricia pushed rapidly inland over mountainous western Mexico early Saturday, weakening to tropical storm force. -
Residents of a stretch of Mexico's Pacific Coast dotted with resorts and fishing villages boarded up homes and bought supplies ahead of Friday's arrival of Hurricane Patricia -
Crew members trained regularly in calm waters to handle the lifeboats would instead likely have struggled against buffeting by huge 50-foot waves, a vessel taking on water and listing to one side and winds the Coast Guard estimated reached 140 mph -
U.S. Coast Guard aircraft searched Saturday in the waters of the southeastern Bahamas for a cargo ship with 33 people on board that lost power and began taking on water as powerful Hurricane Joaquin roared across the sprawling archipelago -
With already-saturated soils and flooded roads, East Coast states were bracing for another day of dreary and possibly dangerous weather Friday as forecasters predicted more downpours and a possible added punch from powerful Hurricane Joaquin -
New Jersey and New York governors err on the side of caution as Hurricane Joaquin picks up steam in the Bahamas. -
Joaquin strengthened to a hurricane Wednesday morning as it nears the Bahamas -
President Barack Obama says New Orleans is "moving forward" a decade after Hurricane Katrina dealt it a devastating blow -
Between Mississippi's seashore and the railroad tracks a little ways inland, where Hurricane Katrina all but erased a neighborhood 10 years ago -
As people search for words to describe New Orleans' recovery a decade after Hurricane Katrina, they sometimes use words verging on the Biblical
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