• Tropical Storm Idalia predicted to make landfall in Florida as a major hurricane this week

    Tropical Storm Idalia predicted to make landfall in Florida as a major hurricane this week

    Aug 28, 2023 01:26 PM EDT

    ... more speed,” DeSantis said. Large parts of the western coast of Florida are at risk of seawater surging onto land and flooding communities when a tropical storm or hurricane approaches. That part of Florida is very vulnerable to storm surges, Jamie Rhome, deputy director of the National Hurricane Center, said ...

  • Flooding expected as Tropical Storm Franklin makes deadly landfall on Haiti and Dominican Republic

    Flooding expected as Tropical Storm Franklin makes deadly landfall on Haiti and Dominican Republic

    Aug 23, 2023 12:54 PM EDT

    ... suddenly becomes flooded,” said Juan Olivo Urbáez, who owns a small business in a community near the Ozama River. The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning for the Turks and Caicos Islands, where up to 3 inches (8 centimeters) of rain was forecast in some areas. Franklin is ...

  • News Wrap: California towns digging out of debris left behind from Tropical Storm Hilary

    News Wrap: California towns digging out of debris left behind from Tropical Storm Hilary

    Aug 22, 2023 10:55 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Tuesday, crews in mountain and desert towns in California are still digging out of mud and debris left behind from Tropical Storm Hilary, more than 800 people on Maui are still unaccounted for two weeks after the deadly wildfires first erupted and a U.N. report paints a grim picture of the...

  • Tropical Storm Hilary leaves desert and mountain towns in muddy mess

    Tropical Storm Hilary leaves desert and mountain towns in muddy mess

    Aug 22, 2023 01:18 PM EDT

    ... arrive to coastal areas by early Tuesday, including near the U.S-Mexico border, where some residents grabbed sandbags in preparation. In the Caribbean, meanwhile, Tropical Storm Franklin churned on Monday near Haiti and the Dominican Republic while Tropical Storm Harold is expected to bring heavy rains and high winds ...

  • Southern California begins cleaning up after 1st tropical storm in 8 decades

    Southern California begins cleaning up after 1st tropical storm in 8 decades

    Aug 21, 2023 10:55 PM EDT

    ... Geoff Bennett: Adding to the anxiety, a 5.1-magnitude earthquake rattled an area north of Los Angeles Sunday. But it was not linked to Tropical Storm Hilary. As the storm now barrels north, some 17 million people are under flood and high wind advisories, watches, and warnings. As the ...

  • Haiti and Dominican Republic warn of floods and landslides as Tropical Storm Franklin approaches

    Haiti and Dominican Republic warn of floods and landslides as Tropical Storm Franklin approaches

    Aug 21, 2023 05:46 PM EDT

    ... said of storms that are too close to each other. Meanwhile, a fourth system in the Gulf of Mexico was expected to soon become a tropical storm, as was a system off the coast of western Africa. “We expected an active season,” said Odalis Martínez, a meteorologist with the National ...

  • Southern California braces for more flooding from post-Tropical Storm Hilary

    Southern California braces for more flooding from post-Tropical Storm Hilary

    Aug 21, 2023 12:38 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: Hilary could reach Southern California as tropical storm

    News Wrap: Hilary could reach Southern California as tropical storm

    Aug 18, 2023 10:50 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Friday, Hurricane Hilary is brewing over the Pacific and could become the first tropical storm to reach Southern California in 84 years, Russia said it shot down a Ukrainian drone over Moscow, the U.S. gave approval for the Netherlands and Denmark to deliver F-16 ...

  • Picking up strength, Hurricane Hilary could reach California as a very rare tropical storm

    Picking up strength, Hurricane Hilary could reach California as a very rare tropical storm

    Aug 18, 2023 02:05 PM EDT

    MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Hilary grew rapidly to Category 4 strength off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Friday and could reach Southern California as the first tropical storm there in 84 years, causing “significant and rare impacts” including extensive flooding. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said a tropical storm ...

  • At least 1 dead as Tropical Storm Khanun hurtles toward Seoul

    At least 1 dead as Tropical Storm Khanun hurtles toward Seoul

    Aug 10, 2023 03:20 PM EDT

    ... coastal campsite. About 37,000 Scouts were transferred to university dormitories, government and corporate training centers. and hotels in Seoul and nearby areas. Despite the storm, organizers were proceeding with plans to hold a K-Pop concert Friday to go with the Jamboree's closing ceremony. Workers dressed in raincoats ...