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... the state's election board, said Tuesday that 12 county election offices in the hard-hit western part of the state remain closed after the storm unleashed “unprecedented” damage. Absentee ballots, some of which already have been mailed to voters who requested them, also face obstacles, from U.S. Postal ...
... Georgia and the Carolinas. For Dello, the “fingerprints of climate change” were clear. “We’ve seen tropical storm impacts in western North Carolina. But these storms are wetter and these storms are warmer. And there would have been a time when a tropical storm would have been heading toward North ...
Hurricane John, which struck as a Category 3 hurricane last week and then reemerged into the ocean and struck again as a tropical storm, caused four days of incredibly heavy rain that killed at least 17 people along the coast around Acapulco. Acapulco was devastated in October 2023 by Hurricane ...
... South Carolina, Helene was the deadliest tropical cyclone to hit the state since Hurricane Hugo made landfall north of Charleston in 1989, killing 35 people. Tropical Storm Kirk could become a major hurricane Tropical Storm Kirk formed Monday in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It is expected to become a hurricane ...
... South Carolina, Helene was the deadliest tropical cyclone to hit the state since Hurricane Hugo made landfall north of Charleston in 1989, killing 35 people. Tropical Storm Kirk forms and could become a powerful hurricane Tropical Storm Kirk formed Monday in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and is expected to become ...
... rescued 400 people. So in just under eight hours, they rescued nearly 1,000 people. For comparison's sake, two months ago, there was a tropical storm. They rescued 11 people. He said that the storm surge actually exceeded what they were expecting and it landed somewhere between four -- it ...
... downstairs hallway of the hotel. “We’ve seen some storms and grown some thicker skins." Soon after it crossed over land, Helene weakened to a tropical storm, then to a tropical depression. Forecasters said it continued to produce catastrophic flooding and some areas received more than a foot of rain ...
Geoff Bennett: Looking at the storm center of circulation, how far out will the impact be felt? Michael Brennan: Well, Helene's a huge storm. The tropical-storm-force winds, for example, extend out more than 300 miles from the center of the storm, especially out to the east side ...
... 1. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted an above-average Atlantic hurricane season this year because of record-warm ocean temperatures. In further storm activity, Tropical Storm Isaac formed Wednesday in the Atlantic and was expected to strengthen as it moves eastward across the open ocean, possibly becoming ...
... Hurricane Center. ... Geoff Bennett: Welcome to the "News Hour." In the span of 24 hours, Helene in the Gulf of Mexico has strengthened from a tropical storm into a hurricane. Over the next 24 hours, it's expected to grow even stronger, and it's barreling straight toward Florida. Floridians ...
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