Hurricane Zeta hits Louisiana with flooding, power outages
The Category 2 hurricane is pelting homes and businesses with rain and howling winds, knocking out power to thousands and threatening to push up to 9 feet of seawater inland. Read more
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The Category 2 hurricane is pelting homes and businesses with rain and howling winds, knocking out power to thousands and threatening to push up to 9 feet of seawater inland. Read more
Tropical Storm Zeta headed for a Wednesday evening landfall and was expected to bring another round of high water and strong wind to the state. Read more
Zeta — the earliest ever 27th named storm of the Atlantic season — was centered about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of the resort of Tulum, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Read more
The day after Hurricane Delta blew through the besieged Louisiana bayou, residents started the routine again: dodging overturned cars on the roads, trudging through knee-deep water to flooded homes with ruined floors and no power, and pledging to rebuild after the storm. Read more
Forecasters warned that Hurricane Delta could blow ashore Friday with winds of up to 105 mph and a storm surge of up to 11 feet. Read more
The National Weather Service in Honolulu said most of the showers will be over the western islands tonight, with the potential for thunder for all islands. Read more
Tropical Storm Dolphin headed north over waters south of the Hachijo island, packing sustained winds of up to 67 miles per hour. Read more
The National Hurricane Center said parts of the Houston area had seen up to 14 inches of rain by this afternoon. Read more
The movement is expected to continue through Wednesday, followed by a turn toward the west on Wednesday night. Read more
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“There are entire communities that we’re going to have to evacuate. It’s going to be a tremendous operation over the next several days.” Read more
The storm’s center churned offshore 65 miles (105 kilometers) south-southeast of Mobile, Alabama, as Sally crept north-northeast toward an expected Wednesday landfall at 2 mph (3 kph), according to the National Hurricane Center. Read more
The slow-moving storm was forecast to brush the southeastern tip of Louisiana and then blow ashore late Tuesday or early Wednesday near the Mississippi-Alabama state line. Read more
Laura was blamed for at least six deaths, and in the hardest-hit parts of Louisiana, the outlook was grim for evacuated residents eager to come home. Read more
Initial reports offered hope that Laura, despite leaving entire neighborhoods in ruins and more than 875,000 people without power, was not the annihilating menace that forecasters had feared. Read more
The National Hurricane Center projected that Laura would draw energy from warm Gulf waters and become a Category 3 hurricane before making landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday, with winds of around 115 mph (185 kph). Read more
Newly formed Tropical Storm Laura and a depression that is likely to become Tropical Storm Marco have such bad and good environments ahead of them that their futures were not clear today. Read more
The chances of tropical cyclone formation was 90% with in the next two days, the hurricane center said. Read more
Hurricane Elida grew to Category 2 force off Mexico’s northwestern coast today, but forecasters said it was not expected to pose a threat to land. Read more
Forecasters said “disorganized showers and thunderstorms … are located about 1,850 miles southeast of Hilo (and) could become a tropical depression late this week.” Read more
The five-day forecast has the storm peaking as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph Tuesday but dropping back down to tropical storm strength with 40 mph winds Friday, Read more
More than 695,000 homes and businesses in the New York tri-state area were still without electricity today as utilities continued trying to get the lights on four days after Tropical Storm Isaias. Read more