• 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 ...

  • Thousands of scouts evacuated from coastal South Korean campsite ahead of tropical storm

    Thousands of scouts evacuated from coastal South Korean campsite ahead of tropical storm

    Aug 08, 2023 03:50 PM EDT

    Organizers said the campsite will not be used for any other events after the Scouts leave. Tropical Storm Khanun has meandered around Japan’s southwestern islands for more than a week, dumping heavy rain, knocking out power and damaging homes. Early on Tuesday, the storm was centered 350 kilometers (217 ...

  • Tropical Storm Bret heads toward eastern Caribbean as region rushes to prepare

    Tropical Storm Bret heads toward eastern Caribbean as region rushes to prepare

    Jun 20, 2023 01:17 PM EDT

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Bret chugged toward the eastern Caribbean on Tuesday as forecasters warned it could strengthen into a hurricane before approaching a region rushing to prepare itself for an unusually early storm. Bret had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) and was moving ...

  • Tropical Storm Nicole makes landfall in Florida, sprawling across most of state

    Tropical Storm Nicole makes landfall in Florida, sprawling across most of state

    Nov 10, 2022 04:24 PM EDT

    ... northwest near 14 mph (22 kph). Robbie Berg, a hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami advised people to understand that hazards from Tropical Storm Nicole "will exist across the state of Florida today." Nicole came could briefly emerge over the northeastern corner of the Gulf of Mexico ...