Hurricane Warnings For Florida As Hurricane Dorian Hits Bahamas With 185 MPH Winds
Hurricane Dorian made landfall on Great Abaco in The Bahamas on Sunday afternoon with 185 MPH winds, making it the strongest storm to ever hit the northwestern Bahamas and one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded at landfall in the Atlantic Ocean.…
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Hurricane Dorian Set To Bring Extreme Winds And Destructive Surge To The Bahamas
Hurricane Dorian continues moving toward the northwestern Bahamas with maximum sustained winds of 150 MPH. While we’re rightfully worried about the southeastern United States, we can’t gloss over the fact that this is an extremely dangerous…
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Hurricane Dorian, Now A Category Four, Poses A Major Threat To Southeast Next Week
Hurricane Dorian rapidly strengthened into a category four storm on Friday evening, packing winds of 140 MPH by the 11:00 PM EDT advisory. We’ve known for a few days now that the storm would enter an extremely favorable environment for…
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Hurricane Dorian Poised To Threaten Florida As A Major Hurricane Early Next Week
Hurricane Dorian grew stronger in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, steadily moving toward the northwest as it pulls away from the Greater Antilles. Great uncertainty remains in the storm’s eventual track and where—even if—the storm will…
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Hurricane Dorian Quickly Organizing In The Southwestern Atlantic Ocean
Dorian strengthened into a hurricane over the U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday afternoon, passing into the southwestern Atlantic Ocean where it will spend the next four days in a prime environment for strengthening. The National Hurricane Center expects…
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The Tropical Atlantic Grows Active Again After An Unusually Long Midsummer Silence
It’s been an unusually quiet summer so far in the Atlantic Ocean. We didn’t see a named storm between Hurricane Barry making landfall on July 17 until weak ol’ Tropical Storm Chantal formed in the oceanic boondocks early last week. That…
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President Trump (Allegedly) Wants To Know If We Can Stop A Hurricane With Nuclear Bombs
Axios reported Sunday evening that Donald Trump, former host of The Apprentice and current President of the United States, reportedly asked Homeland Security officials on multiple occasions if we could “nuke” or simply bomb a hurricane to…
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Tropical Storm Chantal Forms Out In The Middle Of Nowhere
A disturbance in the northern Atlantic Ocean developed into Tropical Storm Chantal on Tuesday evening, becoming the third named storm of the unusually quiet-to-this-point Atlantic hurricane season. Forecasters expect the storm to remain far out in the…
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GOES-17, The Little Weather Satellite That Could, Survived Another Hiccup Last Night
The United States’ newest weather satellite survives to sense another day. GOES-17, known in service as GOES-West, suffered a 10.5-hour outage this morning after a reported software glitch caused the satellite to stop transmitting products and…
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The Eye Of A Powerful Typhoon Abruptly Swerved Around This Japanese Island
The eye of Typhoon Lekima made an unusual and impressive curve around Japan’s Tarama Island on Thursday evening, preventing the center of the storm from making a direct landfall on the tiny island. The unexpected wobble in the storm’s…
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