Milton to hit Florida as a major hurricane on Wednesday
Here we go again. Hurricane Milton is quickly gathering strength over the Gulf of Mexico as it heads east toward Florida over the next few days. Milton’s strange track will take it east over the length of the warm Gulf of Mexico. Favorable…
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Helene’s Floods: When catastrophe comes to pass
Western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee are reeling this week from the onslaught of historic floods associated with Hurricane Helene. Entire neighborhoods washed away in the immense flooding. Major highways are severed. Dozens, if not hundreds, of…
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Hurricane Helene will bring extensive inland flash flooding, power outages
Hurricane Helene remains on track to bring widespread and significant flash flooding and wind damage to large swath of the southeastern United States over the next couple of days. The storm is intensifying as expected as it enters the southern Gulf of…
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Helene’s damaging winds, flooding rain will extend hundreds of miles inland
Hurricane warnings are now in place for parts of the Gulf Coast as Tropical Storm Helene steadily marches toward the region over the next couple of days. The system could reach major hurricane strength before slamming into the Florida coast on Thursday.…
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Prepare now: A hurricane is likely in the Gulf of Mexico this week
A disturbance in the western Caribbean has a very high likelihood of rapidly intensifying into a hurricane over the next couple of days as it closes in on the Gulf Coast. This isn’t the kind of storm we get to watch for a week and a half…
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How to get accurate weather information in the era of internet junk
A hurricane is likely going to develop and rapidly intensify before making landfall on the Gulf Coast this week. Meteorologists are in a rush against time to warn folks in harm’s way of the brewing storm to their south. This is one of the…
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We’re at the peak of Atlantic hurricane season. What’s next?
September 10 is the climatological peak of hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean. This is the day with the greatest odds of having at least one named storm somewhere in the Atlantic basin—and, true to form, we’ve got a hurricane brewing in the…
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Francine expected to hit the northern Gulf Coast as a hurricane Wednesday
A dangerous storm developing in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico will make landfall as a hurricane Wednesday along the Louisiana coast. Tropical Storm Francine spent Monday rapidly getting its act together off the eastern shores of Mexico. The latest…
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Hot and humid nights drove another summer of record heat across the U.S.
This was one of the hottest summers—if not the hottest summer—ever recorded for large portions of the United States, another data point on the undeniable trend toward warmer days and even warmer nights as our climate steadily changes. Meteorological…
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Yes, ‘corn sweat’ is real and it can enhance brutal Midwestern humidity
A dangerous heat wave gripping portions of the central United States made headlines this week for two words: corn sweat. Yes, ‘corn sweat’ is a real thing that can have a real impact on the weather. Daytime highs soaring into the middle to…
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