Tropical Depression Imelda, sauntering through southeast Texas at 5 mph, flooded some homes with 5 feet of water early Thursday, forced a hospital to evacuate patients and shut down a stretch of Interstate 10.
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Tropical Storm Imelda dumped 7 inches of rain in parts of southeast Texas on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, and though it’s been downgraded to a tropical depression, a flash flood warning remains in effect.
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Hurricane Dorian howled over North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Friday — a much weaker but still dangerous version of the storm that wreaked havoc in the Bahamas — flooding homes in the low-lying ribbon of islands and throwing a scare into year-round residents who tried to tough it out.
Read moreNearly three-quarters of Americans see weather disasters, like Hurricane Dorian, worsening and most of them blame global warming to some extent, a new poll finds.
Read moreHurricane Dorian raked the Carolina coast with howling, window-rattling winds and sideways rain Thursday, spinning off tornadoes and knocking out power to more than 200,000 homes and businesses as it pushed northward toward the dangerously exposed Outer Banks.
Read moreTrouble is raining down on President Donald Trump, who gave the nation incorrect information on Hurricane Dorian’s trajectory, using an altered weather map to defend himself.
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As Hurricane Dorian moves away from the flooded remains of the Bahamas, governors across the American South are ordering evacuations, declaring states of emergency and asking for federal support ahead of the storm’s expected U.S. landfall.
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Bahamians rescued victims of Hurricane Dorian with jet skis and a bulldozer as the U.S. Coast Guard, Britain’s Royal Navy and a handful of aid groups tried to get food and medicine to survivors and take the most desperate people to safety.
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Relief officials reported scenes of utter ruin Tuesday in parts of the Bahamas and rushed to deal with an unfolding humanitarian crisis in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful storm on record ever to hit the islands. At least seven deaths were reported, with the full scope of the disaster still unknown.
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Floridians braced themselves Friday as Hurricane Dorian’s forecast grew more grim, with the storm’s expected intensity upon U.S. landfall creeping higher.
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Hurricane Dorian moved out over open waters early Thursday after doing limited damage in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, though forecasters warned it was gaining strength and probably would grow into a dangerous storm while heading toward the northern Bahamas and Florida’s east coast.
Read moreTweeting into the expected eye of tropical storm Dorian, President Donald Trump taunted Puerto Rico on Wednesday about the relief it needed after Hurricane Maria.
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Tropical Storm Dorian threatened Puerto Rico with a direct hit on Wednesday, as forecasters said it made a last-minute shift in its path and could reach near-hurricane strength in its approach to the U.S. territory.
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Two people were confirmed dead Wednesday as heavy rains pounded southwest Japan, prompting flood and landslide warnings and orders for 670,000 people to seek safety.
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Much of the eastern Caribbean island of Barbados shut down Monday as Tropical Storm Dorian approached and gathered strength, threatening to turn into a hurricane that forecasters said could affect the northern Windward islands and Puerto Rico in coming days.
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Forecasters said Tropical Storm Dorian was gathering strength Monday while approaching islands in the eastern Caribbean Sea, and could strike Puerto Rico and its neighbors as a minimal hurricane on Tuesday.
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California fishermen are reporting one of the best salmon fishing seasons in years, thanks to heavy rain and snow that ended the state’s historic drought.
Read moreSince records began in 1880, July 2019 was the hottest month measured on Earth. The previous July record, about 0.05 degrees cooler, was set in 2016.
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Forecasters are warning about days of scorching, dangerous heat gripping a wide swath of the U.S. South and Midwest, where the heat index on Monday eclipsed 120 degrees in one town and climbed nearly that high in others.
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China issued its top warning for coastal areas of Zhejiang province Friday as a strong typhoon carrying heavy rain and winds was expected to send an intense storm surge up the mighty Yangzte River.
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