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Tropical depression heads toward Mexican coast
Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico's Bay of Campeche is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall in that country's Gulf Coast state of Veracruz. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the Atlantic season's second tropical depression is drenching areas in its path with between 3 ...
New NYC evacuation zones include almost 3M people
Nearly 3 million New Yorkers' homes are now in evacuation zones that cover more than a third of the city's population, under new maps released Tuesday. In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, officials said last month, the number of zones would double and encompass about 600,000 more residents. Few storms ...
2 out of 3 people face hunger as Haiti woes mount
The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast. The hair on broomstick-thin children has turned patchy and orangish, their stomachs have ballooned to the size of their heads and many look half their age — the tell-tale signs of ...
Weakened Andrea breaks Northeast rainfall records
The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season smashed rainfall totals across the Northeast and pushed some streams and creeks over their banks but sped up the Eastern Seaboard without causing major damage. A weakened Andrea shifted away from New England on Saturday morning with winds gusting up to ...
Andrea washes away sporting events on East Coast
The remnants of Tropical Storm Andrea washed away sporting events from the Southeast to New England. Major League games in Washington, Boston and New York were postponed Friday, hours before their scheduled starts. Rain was expected to last in New York until Saturday morning, possibly leaving a wet track for ...
Andrea bringing rains, flood watches to East Coast
The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season drenched the Southeastern U.S. but caused no major damage on Friday, marching up the East Coast as it brought the threat of weekend flooding as far north as New England. After bringing rain, strong winds and even tornadoes to Florida, Andrea ...
Tropical Storm Andrea pounds parts of Florida
The first named storm of the Atlantic season hammered Florida with rain, heavy winds, and tornadoes Thursday as it moved toward the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas, promising sloppy commutes and waterlogged vacation getaways through the beginning of the weekend. Tropical Storm Andrea was losing intensity late Thursday and ...
Georgians brace for flooding as Andrea approaches
South Georgians were bracing for heavy rains that could lead to flooding as Tropical Storm Andrea made its way to the Florida coast Thursday night. Parts of southeast Georgia — including Brunswick, Savannah, Valdosta and Waycross — were under a tropical storm warning most of Thursday. The storm was expected ...
Tropical Storm Andrea bearing down on Fla. coast
The first named storm of the Atlantic season hammered Florida with rain, heavy winds, and tornadoes Thursday as it moved over land toward the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas, promising sloppy commutes and waterlogged vacation getaways through the beginning of the weekend. Tropical Storm Andrea was not expected to ...
Forecasters issue tropical storm warning for part of Florida's west coast after Andrea forms
Forecasters issue tropical storm warning for part of Florida's west coast after Andrea forms.
Storm to cause heavy rain on Fla.'s Gulf Coast
People along Florida's west coast can expect torrential downpours, flooding and possibly a tornado because of a low-pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico starting on Wednesday. Rodney Wynn, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, said some areas will get 3 to 5 inches of rain over the next ...
Seminole Co. holds hurricane expo for families
Seminole County is holding a hurricane expo to help families prepare for the tropical season. The county's Office of Emergency Management is hosting the Hurricane Expo on Saturday at the Seminole Towne Center Mall in Sanford. Saturday is also the start of the six-month hurricane season. A county statement says ...
Furloughs among officials' storm season worries
While urging coastal residents to prepare for the Atlantic hurricane season, federal officials said Friday that they were doing what they could to get ready for a storm season that includes furloughs in the agencies that forecast and respond to tropical storms. Furloughs required by the federal budget cuts known ...
Coastal homeowners stagger under insurance costs
When Stan Virden moved into his 2,400-square-foot house overlooking a rock-lined canal in 1996, he paid less than $1,000 a year for homeowners insurance. Now, as he seeks to move to Atlanta to be near family, Virden says potential buyers for the house are being scared off by the annual ...
1930s subway train makes rare uptown trip in NYC
Hundreds of lucky New York City commuters got a surprise trip back in time when eight 1930s-era subway cars were briefly returned to service offering woven wicker seats, ceiling fans and rusted metal exteriors. The cars were pulled out of storage for a one-time trip Thursday to commemorate the reopening ...
Scott concerned over Fla National Guard furloughs
Gov. Rick Scott says federal budget cuts known as the sequester are his biggest concerns for the upcoming hurricane season. Scott says the cuts threaten to strain Florida's readiness capability. According to the governor, the cuts mean nearly 1,000 Florida National Guardsmen and technicians will have to take furloughs during ...
Barbara weakens to tropical storm, kills 2 people
Hurricane Barbara drenched a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico's southern Pacific coast with rain Wednesday after making the second-earliest landfall since reliable record-keeping began in 1966. It quickly lost strength over land but not before killing at least two people, including a man identified by local officials as a U.S. ...
US vs. European hurricane model: Which is better?
When forecasters from the National Weather Service track a hurricane, they use models from several different supercomputers located around the world to create their predictions. Some of those models are more accurate than others. During Hurricane Sandy last October, for instance, the model from the European Center for Medium-range Weather ...
Hurricane warning issued for Mexican coast as Tropical Storm Barbara approaches in Pacific
Hurricane warning issued for Mexican coast as Tropical Storm Barbara approaches in Pacific.
Hurricane watch issued for portion of Mexican coast as Tropical Storm Barbara approaches
Hurricane watch issued for portion of Mexican coast as Tropical Storm Barbara approaches.
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