• News Wrap: Hilary makes landfall along Mexico's Baja peninsula

    News Wrap: Hilary makes landfall along Mexico's Baja peninsula

    Aug 20, 2023 09:45 PM EDT

    ... forecasters warn it will still deliver potentially historic rainfall across the Southwest which could trigger life threatening flash floods. By tomorrow morning, the fast moving storm is expected to be well inland over Nevada as a tropical depression. But on its way there, forecasters say the storm could dump up ...

  • News Wrap: California, Mexico feel effects of Hurricane Hilary

    News Wrap: California, Mexico feel effects of Hurricane Hilary

    Aug 19, 2023 09:45 PM EDT

    ... a year's rain could fall in a matter of hours leading to catastrophic and life threatening flash floods. Hurricane Hilary, now a category two storm, is expected to become a tropical storm by the time it makes landfall as early as tonight in a sparsely populated area of the ...

  • How communities can improve warning systems and disaster responses

    How communities can improve warning systems and disaster responses

    Aug 19, 2023 09:40 PM EDT

    ... to start that very time consuming step of actually evacuating or taking protective action. John Yang: Well, in the Southwest now, they've got a tropical storm, it's currently a Hurricane Hilary bearing down on them, and they're already warning about potentially catastrophic and deadly flash flooding over ...

  • LIVE MAP: Track the path of Hurricane Hilary

    LIVE MAP: Track the path of Hurricane Hilary

    Aug 18, 2023 05:53 PM EDT

    ... somewhere later,” Johnson said. “I can’t remember a storm like this.”Also Sunday, one of several budding storm systems in the Atlantic Ocean became Tropical Storm Emily, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was far from land, moving west in the open ocean. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Franklin formed ...

  • News Wrap: Former police officer sentenced for his role in George Floyd's death

    News Wrap: Former police officer sentenced for his role in George Floyd's death

    Aug 07, 2023 10:50 PM EDT

    ... in Niger closed the country's airspace, Russian shelling in Ukraine struck towns near the front lines killing at least seven people and a looming tropical storm is forcing mass evacuations at the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea. ... Amna Nawaz: In the day's other headlines: A judge in ...

  • South Korea to mass evacuate scouts from coastal jamboree ahead of storm landfall

    South Korea to mass evacuate scouts from coastal jamboree ahead of storm landfall

    Aug 07, 2023 01:42 PM EDT

    ... K., representing the largest national contingent, while about 1,000 were from the United States.South Korea categorizes Khanun as a typhoon, defined as a tropical storm with winds stronger than 61 kph (38 mph). South Korea’s weather agency expects Khanun to weaken to a storm within the next ...

  • Beijing records heaviest rainfall in 140 years, severe flooding and 21 deaths

    Beijing records heaviest rainfall in 140 years, severe flooding and 21 deaths

    Aug 02, 2023 03:11 PM EDT

    ... flooding. "We need to avoid building large-scale construction ... in low-lying areas," Ma said. The record rainfall from Doksuri, now downgraded to a tropical storm, may not be the last. Typhoon Khanun, which lashed Japan on Wednesday, is expected to head toward China later this week. The powerful storm ...

  • As climate change leads to more and wetter storms, cholera cases are on the rise

    As climate change leads to more and wetter storms, cholera cases are on the rise

    Aug 01, 2023 04:59 PM EDT

    In early 2022, nearly 200,000 Malawians were displaced after two tropical storms struck the southeastern part of Africa barely a month apart. Fifty-three people died. Amid an already-heavy rainy season, the storms Ana and Gombe caused devastation across southern Malawi to homes, crops, and infrastructure. “That March ...

  • Northeast farmers 'heartbroken' as floods devastate months of labor and crops are swept away

    Northeast farmers 'heartbroken' as floods devastate months of labor and crops are swept away

    Jul 21, 2023 02:28 PM EDT

    ... Storms dumped up to two months’ worth of rain in a couple of days in parts of the region, surpassing the amount that fell when Tropical Storm Irene blew through in 2011, causing major flooding. Officials have called last week’s flooding Vermont’s worst natural disaster since floods in ...

  • How recycled oyster shells are helping save Louisiana's dwindling coastline

    How recycled oyster shells are helping save Louisiana's dwindling coastline

    Jul 12, 2023 10:20 PM EDT

    ... is sort of the ultimate sustainable seafood. It's really a win-win-win, because oysters also filter the water. They can help to minimize storm surge during hurricanes and tropical storms, and they slow the rate of erosion by a significant amount. Roby Chavez: In one of the largest ...