Hurricane Beryl roared through open waters on Tuesday as a monstrous Category 5 storm on a path that would take it near Jamaica and the Cayman Islands after earlier making landfall in the southeast Caribbean, killing at least four people. A hurricane warning was in effect for Jamaica and a hurricane watch for Grand Cayman, […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Beryl roared through open waters on Tuesday as a monstrous Category 5 storm on a path that would take it near Jamaica and the Cayman Islands after earlier making landfall in the southeast Caribbean, killing at least two people. A hurricane warning was in effect for Jamaica and […]
WASHINGTON — The debate was always going to be a gamble for Joe Biden — but the bet may prove more costly than he imagined after he gave what was roundly panned as a bumbling and incoherent performance. Alarmed by the spectacle, some Democrats fretted that they might need to dump Biden from the ticket, […]
MANKATO, Minnesota — Devastated communities across the Midwest are picking up the pieces after days of flooding that destroyed homes, roads and public facilities, with more storms likely to hit this week. Recovery efforts and evacuations were taking place against the backdrop of extreme heat elsewhere, with 33 million people across the southern Plains, lower […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Hundreds of Iowa residents have needed rescue from record-setting flooding that has swamped parts of the state, covering buildings up to their rooftops, shutting down major roads, and disrupting basic services like electricity and drinking water. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said water in some areas rose above records from 1993, a […]
Flooding in the Midwest has caused severe damage, collapsing a bridge, weakening a dam and forcing the evacuation of a town. Nearly 3 million people in Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska have been affected. In the border area of Iowa and South Dakota, devastation from the record flooding was “severe and widespread,” according to […]
SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) —Ruidoso’s Assistant Fire Chief Ross Coleman, a former San Angelo fire marshal, has been at the forefront of the efforts with minimal rest. “The north side of the town looks like a different place. The trees are gone, and landmark hotels have been lost. It’s very depressing and has […]
After a Fox News poll showed Joe Biden polling better than him, Donald Trump lost it on Truth Social Thursday morning. “FoxNews Polls are always the worst for me. They have been from the beginning, and always will be!” Trump posted. The poll shows Biden ahead of Trump by two points, 50–48 percent. It’s a […]
Two families are struggling after last Thursday’s violent crash on Highway 12 left a Kennewick man dead and a Burbank man hospitalized. Daniel T. Zarate’s family is preparing for his funeral while Joshua P. Hoover’s relatives are by the side of the 37-year-old father of three for an expected lengthy recovery, according to family members. […]
Editor’s Note: The CNN Original Series “Violent Earth with Liev Schreiber” explores the harrowing weather events, from hurricanes and tornadoes to wildfires, that are increasingly frequent in our changing climate. It airs on Sunday at 9pm ET/PT. A catastrophic earthquake and tsunami are inevitable for the coast of the Pacific Northwest, scientists say. Planning for […]
Florida is dealing with another day of rain and devastating flash flooding despite already reeling from historic rainfall that has left entire neighborhoods underwater. Six million people remain under a flood watch through Friday evening across southern Florida, including metro areas of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Fort Myers and Naples. Thus far, scattered […]
Severe storms are producing flooding at a higher frequency and squeezing out more rain. What’s happening? According to a recent report from the World Weather Attribution group, an overheating planet made storms in the U.K. and Ireland last fall and winter nearly 20% more intense, or about 10 times more likely. Attribution science tries to […]