• News Wrap: Oath Keepers founder sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy

    News Wrap: Oath Keepers founder sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy

    May 25, 2023 10:45 PM EST

    ... there were no reported deaths or major injuries. Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero (D), Guam: I am so glad we are safe. We have weathered the storm. The worst has gone by. But we are going to continue experiencing tropical storm winds up to about 40, 50 miles per hour. So ...

  • Super Typhoon Mawar pummels Guam as Category 4 storm

    Super Typhoon Mawar pummels Guam as Category 4 storm

    May 24, 2023 01:32 PM EST

    ... in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, was also under a typhoon warning. Tinian and Saipan, in the Northern Marianas, were under tropical storm warnings. Some people in those areas are still in temporary shelters or tents after Category 5 Super Typhoon Yutu in 2018. Mawar, a ...

  • Emergency shelters start to fill up as Guam braces for Typhoon Mawar

    Emergency shelters start to fill up as Guam braces for Typhoon Mawar

    May 23, 2023 01:18 PM EST

    ... U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, was also under a typhoon warning, Doll said. Tinian and Saipan, in the Northern Marianas, were under tropical storm warnings.Some people in those areas are still in temporary shelters or tents after Category 5 Super Typhoon Yutu in 2018, Doll noted ...

  • Mozambique works to contain cholera outbreak amid flooding after Cyclone Freddy

    Mozambique works to contain cholera outbreak amid flooding after Cyclone Freddy

    Apr 02, 2023 03:35 PM EST

    ... figure which had almost doubled in a week. Freddy was likely the longest-lived cyclone ever, lasting over five weeks and hitting Mozambique twice. The tropical storm killed 165 people in Mozambique, 17 in Madagascar and 676 in Malawi. More than 530 people are still missing in Malawi two weeks ...

  • La Nina, which worsens hurricanes and drought, is gone after 3 years

    La Nina, which worsens hurricanes and drought, is gone after 3 years

    Mar 09, 2023 08:59 PM EST

    ... more storms in the Atlantic during hurricane season because it removes conditions that suppress storm formation. Neutral or El Nino conditions make it harder for storms to get going, but not impossible, scientists said. Over the last three years, the U.S. has been hit by 14 hurricanes and tropical ...

  • Weakened Cyclone Freddy continues to batter Madagascar, killing 4

    Weakened Cyclone Freddy continues to batter Madagascar, killing 4

    Feb 22, 2023 10:58 PM EST

    ... a new cyclone forming near the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean were raised after Reunion's cyclone center said it's monitoring a new tropical depression that “has significant potential to strengthen into a tropical storm by Thursday.” Associated Press writer Wanjohi Kabukuru in Mombasa, Kenya, contributed to this ...

  • Madagascar, Mozambique prepare for 'dangerous' Cyclone Freddy

    Madagascar, Mozambique prepare for 'dangerous' Cyclone Freddy

    Feb 20, 2023 04:54 PM EST

    ... nations brace for landfall. Cyclone Freddy is projected to reach Madagascar on Tuesday evening and hurtle toward Mozambique by the end of the week. The tropical cyclone is equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane and is expected to dump heavy rain and bring turbulent winds. A "significant deterioration in weather ...

  • Hurricane Ian, drought conditions amplified 2022 U.S. weather extremes

    Hurricane Ian, drought conditions amplified 2022 U.S. weather extremes

    Jan 10, 2023 09:18 PM EST

    In 2022, there were nine billion-dollar non-tropical storms, including a derecho, three hurricanes, two tornado outbreaks, one flood, one winter storm, a megadrought and costly wildfires. The only general type of weather disaster missing was an icy freeze that causes $1 billion or more in crop damage, Smith ...

  • News Wrap: Ukrainian forces take back city of Kherson

    News Wrap: Ukrainian forces take back city of Kherson

    Nov 11, 2022 11:50 PM EST

    ... of horror. Judy Woodruff: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the day historic and said that his first focus was to de-mine the region. Tropical Storm Nicole has now weakened to a depression, dumping heavy rain from Georgia on up to Southern Canada. The storm claimed at least three ...

  • Tropical Depression Nicole dumps rain from Georgia to New York

    Tropical Depression Nicole dumps rain from Georgia to New York

    Nov 11, 2022 03:43 PM EST

    WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. (AP) — The remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole sent heavy rains falling from Georgia to New York on Friday as flooding and surging ocean waters receded from a stretch of Florida coastline where the most damaging impacts became evident after it made landfall as a hurricane ...