Hurricane Season Comes to an End After Breaking Records
Government scientists said the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season set several new records as the final week of the official season wound down and experts reflected on the data Tuesday.
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Warming Oceans Help Hurricanes Stay Strong After Landfall
A study of North Atlantic hurricanes over a 50-year period reveals that the warming ocean has supercharged hurricanes, leading to more destructive, longer-lasting storms.
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8 Years Later, Sandy Still Costing Transit Systems Billions
Once a gleaming symbol of early 20th-century ambition and prosperity, Hoboken’s grand rail terminal now sits as a somber reminder of the daunting challenges facing mass transit in the New York region.
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Zeta Knocks Out Power as It Roars Through the South
Leaving millions in the dark, Zeta continued to tear through the South as a tropical storm Thursday morning after making landfall in Louisiana the day before as a strong Category 2 hurricane.
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Category 2 Zeta Makes Landfall on Louisiana Coast
Hurricane Zeta is expected to make landfall in southeast Louisiana as a Category 2 storm Wednesday afternoon, taking aim at the New Orleans metropolitan area where local authorities cautioned that the draining pump system is not functioning properly.
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Tropical Storm Zeta Expected to Strengthen on Path to Gulf Coast
The Gulf Coast is keeping a close eye on Tropical Storm Zeta, which is expected to make landfall Wednesday night as a Category 1 hurricane in what has been an unprecedented hurricane season.
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Man Shelters 300 Dogs From Hurricane Delta in Mexico Home
As the dangerous Hurricane Delta closed in on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, Ricardo Pimentel opened his home — to about 300 dogs.
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Hurricane Delta Slams Into Louisiana
Hurricane Delta is expected to make landfall Friday night in roughly the same area of southwest Louisiana that was ravaged by Hurricane Laura six weeks ago, leaving in its path downed trees and power lines and knocking out windows and power to hundreds of thousands of homes.
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Louisiana Residents Brace for Category 4 Hurricane Delta
Hurricane Delta rapidly upgraded to a Category 4 storm Tuesday with 145 mph winds ahead of an anticipated landfall overnight near the northeastern tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, before it is expected to take aim at the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Texas Judge Throws Out Charges Over Chemical Plant Fire
The criminal case against chemical maker Arkema over an August 2017 fire at its Houston-area plant that forced 200 residents to evacuate their homes ended Thursday when a judge found there was not enough evidence to find the company and its plant manager guilty.
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Criminal Trial Over Chemical Plant Meltdown in Texas Resumes After Covid Delay
The criminal trial of a chemical company and its CEO over a hurricane-triggered meltdown at its Houston-area plant resumed Thursday after the pandemic forced a six-month delay.
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Drenched Houston Gears Up for Full Impact of Tropical Storm Beta
Houstonians awoke Tuesday to pouring rain and flooded freeways from Tropical Storm Beta after it made landfall late Monday 100 miles northeast of Corpus Christi with 45 mph winds.
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Water Rescues Underway as Hurricane Sally Drenches Gulf Coast
Hurricane Sally slammed the Alabama coast and Florida Panhandle on Wednesday morning after strengthening overnight to a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 mph and drenching rains forecasters warn will bring catastrophic flooding.
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Hurricane Sally Slowly Rolls Toward Mississippi-Alabama Line
New Orleans moved out of Hurricane Sally’s path Tuesday morning as the Category 1 storm crept slowly east toward Mississippi and Alabama, prompting calls for evacuation over flash flooding concerns as forecasters predict up to 2 feet of rain.
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Sally Expected to Make Landfall Along Gulf Coast as Category 1 Hurricane
Tropical Storm Sally, the earliest S-named storm on record in the Atlantic, is expected to slow down over the Gulf of Mexico on Monday evening before strengthening into a hurricane Tuesday with life-threatening storm surge along the Gulf Coast, including metropolitan New Orleans.
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Study of Ocean Salinity Reveals Amped-Up Global Water Cycle
Climate change has boosted the amount of evaporation across Earth’s surface, leading to more frequent extreme weather events from megadroughts to monster hurricanes.
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Hurricane Nana Hits Belize, Drives Across Guatemala
Hurricane Nana made landfall in Belize, pelting a relatively sparsely populated stretch of the country’s coast with heavy rain and wind, before weakening to a tropical storm while pushing across Guatemala on Thursday.
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Gulf Coast Rocked by Powerful Hurricane Laura
As daybreak came Thursday and Hurricane Laura downgraded from a potentially catastrophic Category 4 to a menacing Category 2 storm traveling inland with 100 mph winds, residents along the Texas-Louisiana border who did not evacuate began to take stock of damages.
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Hurricane Laura Strengthens to Category 4 Storm
Hurricane Laura has grown into a Category 3 with 125 mph winds and forecasters predict it will come ashore Wednesday night or early Thursday near the Texas-Louisiana border.
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Hurricane Laura Forces Evacuations as It Barrels Toward Gulf Coast
Counties on the southeast Texas coast are ordering their residents to evacuate Tuesday as forecasters say Tropical Storm Laura is now a hurricane that will lash the area with driving winds and rain when it makes landfall Wednesday.
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