Hurricane

Exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Hurricane Ida struck Louisiana on Sunday, flooding towns and knocking out power for entire parishes. The New Orleans levee system erected in the wake of Katrina’s catastrophic failures held. But there were two notable differences between the storms. First was Ida’s…

“The wind is tearing Pointe-Aux-Chenes apart,” Albert Naquin told me Sunday afternoon. He was standing in his carport, watching as the first eyewall of Hurricane Ida passed over the bayou where he has lived for almost his entire life. Naquin is the chief of the Ile de Jean Charles band…

For decades, treasure hunters in search of gold have been diving to explore shipwrecks off the Florida Keys. In 1985, a mother lode gold haul was found inside the Nuestra de Atocha Spanish galleon which, heavily laden with precious gems and metals, tobacco, bronze cannons, and indigo, was ripped apart by a…

STORM WATCH 15:30, 16 Aug 2021Updated: 15:30, 16 Aug 2021FRED has strengthened to a tropical storm status as it is barrelling towards Florida. Meanwhile, Storm Grace heads for quake-hit Haiti. The National Hurricane Center said Fred regained its tropical storm status in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday as parts…

Palm trees sway in the wind during the passage of Tropical Storm Fred in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic August 11, 2021. REUTERS/Ricardo Rojas HAVANA, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Tropical storm Fred was passing over the Caribbean island of Hispaniola on Wednesday, made up of the countries of the Dominican Republic…

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The tropical disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean that had potential for developing into a greater storm has done just that. Tropical Storm Fred developed just south of Puerto Rico late Tuesday night. Now, as it aims toward a Florida that's dealing with a record COVID outbreak, it could strengthen into…

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Fred would be the sixth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.The chance the disturbance forms into a tropical storm is high at 90% through 48 hours.Most of Florida remains in the system's five-day forecast cone.SARASOTA, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fred developed just south of Puerto Rico late Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center…

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