Hurricane News
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This year's hurricane season is expected to be bad. Atmospheric and oceanic conditions are primed to push severe storm development in the Atlantic, according to new research. What can these, and other findings, reveal about hurricanes and climate?
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By AFP
New Orleans -
Hurricane Sally picked up strength as it edged towards the US Gulf Coast early Wednesday, with forecasts of drenching rains that could provoke "historic" and potentially deadly flash floods.
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Miami -
A disturbance east of Florida has high odds of becoming the next tropical depression or storm of the year, while Tropical Storm Paulette is forecast to become the next hurricane of the 2020 season.
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By AFP
Mexico -
Hurricane Genevieve weakened Wednesday to a Category 1 storm off Mexico's Baja California peninsula, US forecasters said, after bringing rain and high waves to the country's northwest coast.
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By AFP
Miami -
Isaias neared the Florida coast Sunday threatening to bring strong winds, flash flooding and storm surges but was no longer expected to regain hurricane strength.
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By AFP
Honolulu -
Hawaii braced for Hurricane Douglas on Sunday, as the storm approached the Pacific archipelago, after the year's first Atlantic hurricane lashed Texas.
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By AFP
Miami -
Tropical Storm Cristobal's formation in the Gulf of Mexico marks a new record as the earliest that the Atlantic hurricane season has seen its third named disturbance, US meteorologists said Tuesday.
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New environmental evidence suggests that hurricanes are becoming stronger. Longer-term environmental data signals variations are occurring, with more intense storms being recorded.
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By AFP
Miami -
US forecasters on Thursday predicted an "above normal" Atlantic hurricane season with three to six storms of Category 3 or higher.
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Climate change can impact on extreme weather, especially violently strong winds. New research finds that climate change impacted Hurricane Florence's precipitation and size, based on computer modelling.
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By AFP
Miami -
Protests broke out in earthquake-hit Puerto Rico on Monday as a judicial investigation was opened into the weekend discovery of unused emergency supplies leftover from the devastating Hurricane Maria.
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You’ll have heard of earthquakes and hurricanes. Now, how about stormquakes? These powerful oceanic events are set to be categorized as a new meteorological phenomenon, based on new research centered on the U.S. coastline.
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By AFP
Saint John's -
After monster Hurricane Irma annihilated the farm sector of Barbuda in 2017, growers got smart: among other changes, they moved their crops to higher ground.
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By AFP
Hamilton -
Hurricane Humberto headed northward in the Atlantic Thursday after tearing off rooftops and knocking out power to more than 28,000 customers as it brushed past Bermuda, forecasters and local news reports said.
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By AFP
Hamilton -
Residents of the tiny British archipelago of Bermuda battened down the hatches as Hurricane Humberto, a major category 3 storm packing fierce winds and punishing rain, brushed near the islands Wednesday evening.
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By AFP
Miami -
Tropical Storm Humberto lashed the Bahamas with rain and wind on Saturday, possibly slowing down relief efforts in the wake of the devastation wrought less than two weeks ago by Hurricane Dorian.
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By AFP
Miami -
The devastated northern Bahama islands were facing a fresh tropical storm on Saturday, potentially complicating desperately needed relief efforts to the shattered archipelago in the wake of Hurricane Dorian.
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By AFP
Miami -
Some 1,300 people are still unaccounted for in the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian, officials said Thursday, down from the 2,500 previously reported.
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By AFP
Nassau -
About 2,500 people are unaccounted for in the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian, the archipelago's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Wednesday.
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By AFP
Nassau -
Some 2,500 people are unaccounted for in the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian, the archipelago's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Wednesday.
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By AFP
Nassau -
Even before Hurricane Dorian destroyed their shantytown on Abaco Island, life was not easy for the Haitian immigrant community in the Bahamas.Now the loss of everything they own is compounded by fear about the future.
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By AFP
Nassau -
Bahamas authorities have updated the death toll from Hurricane Dorian to 50 with the number expected to climb, local media reported, as thousands are evacuated from the archipelago's hardest-hit islands.
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By AFP
Washington -
President Donald Trump said Monday that the US would have to be careful about allowing Bahamian survivors of Hurricane Dorian into the country, warning there could be "very bad people" among them.
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By AFP
Nassau -
Authorities in the Bahamas have updated the death toll from Hurricane Dorian to 45, with police calling for the public to register details of the many people still missing.
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By AFP
Marsh Harbour -
"Here, we're all going to die."Miralda Smith spoke in a nervous near-whisper as she lined up Saturday with hundreds of other weary, shell-shocked residents of devastated Marsh Harbour to leave the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas.
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By AFP
Marsh Harbour -
In the desolation left after Hurricane Dorian carved a murderous path across the northern Bahamas, six men dressed in immaculate white overalls zip a corpse into a body bag.
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Toronto -
As the effects of Hurricane Dorian are being felt along the U.S. southeast coast, Canadian forecasters say the storm system is expected to severely impact parts of the Atlantic provinces this weekend.
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By AFP
Washington -
For the Atlantic's major cruise operators, deadly Hurricane Dorian has meant nothing but trouble in paradise as ships have been diverted from the Bahamas.
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By AFP
Port Saint Lucie -
The message was desperate, despondent and urgent."Anybody who can help me, this is Kendra Williams. I live in Heritage. We are under water; we are up in the ceiling. "Can someone please assist us or send some help. Please.
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By AFP
Nassau -
The Bahamas, devastated by Hurricane Dorian, is an English-speaking archipelago located between Florida, Cuba and Haiti, which lives mainly from tourism and enjoys close relations with the United States.
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Hurricane Image
Artist's concept of one of the eight Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System satellites deployed in space. NASA
People braving the weather after Hurricane Isaac flooded homes. Photo by Jonathan Betz (@jebetz)
This section of E. Grace Street, Richmond, VA, collapsed during tropical storm Gaston. Gaston dropped twelve inches of rain in the area. Gaston made landfall as a Category 1 storm. Liz Roll
Expected path of what could become Hurricane Nate as of 2:00 p.m. EDT. NHC
A photo uploaded on Twitter by Melissa Harris-Perry shows devastation caused by Hurricane Isaac. The caption included in the Tweet was, "Feeling sad. #Isaac took the home @JamesHPerry and I just bought. All safe. House was vacant except for my dreams." Photo by Melissa Harris-Perry (@MHarrisPerry)
The NASA photo shows the size and magnitude of Hurricane Sandy NASA-GOES
A tree falls between cars after Hurricane Isaac hits land Photo by Brandon Michaels
Hurricane Bonnie made landfall in North Carolina, United States, inflicting severe crop damage. The second named storm, first hurricane of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season NOAA
Eric Berger is the Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica. He tweeted this GOES-16 satellite imagery of Hurricane Harvey, making the comment, "This is just astounding."
CC License: Attrition, no deriv. Eric Berger
Ugly weather hovers over Tampa Bay, Florida juxtapose^esopatxuj
Projected rainfall and flooding from Hurricane Sandy Screen Capture
Freddy Kaufman and residents of Port Huron, Mich. organized Mission: Operation Sandy to coordinate efforts to provide relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey. Freddy Kaufman
Satellite image of Irma posted by NHC at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday. Notice the hurricane's eye and how well-formed it is. NHC
Tropical Storm Katia National Weather Service
High winds knock a large tree onto a car in Braithwaithe Louisiana Screen Capture
Traffic drives along US 98 as Hurricane Hermine approaches on September 1, 2016 in Eastpoint, Florida. Mark Wallheiser / AFP
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