Hurricane

Woman relaxing on a hammock on a tropical beach. Getty As we head into mid-April, many of the states in the U.S. have surging numbers of new cases of COVID-19, with more hospitalizations, more ICU admissions, more ventilated patients, and more deaths. We see the maps daily, with curves based…

Gov. Brian Kemp announced Easter Sunday that the state will convert part of the sprawling Georgia World Congress Center into a 200-bed hospital for coronavirus patients, as Christians observed the holiest day for the faith by largely abiding by the governor’s pleas to stay home and watch services online. The epidemic also…

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US President Donald Trump, with ‪Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Bill Barr‬, leads the daily coronavirus response briefing at the White House in Washington. (REUTERS) The United States will certainly still be battling the coronavirus by the time the Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1. AFP Last…

Key Point: Hurricane Michael isn’t the first storm to deliver a painful blow to U.S. air power. Hurricane Michael damaged as many as seventeen U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighters when it ravaged Tyndall Air Force Base on the Florida panhandle on October 10, 2018. It could take years and…

Last October, Jane Fonda received the 2019 Stanley Kubrick award for excellence in film, a prestigious honor from the British Academy of Television Film and Arts. Regrettably, the then-81-year-old actress was too busy getting arrested on Capitol Hill to accept the award in person.“Thank you, BAFTA!” she shouted as police…

As the world battles the coronavirus crisis, researchers are warning of a potentially active Atlantic Ocean hurricane season, which kicks off June 1 through the end of November. For the 37th year in a row, Colorado State University (CSU) issued its hurricane season forecast Thursday — and the numbers appear…

In addition to the global coronavirus pandemic and a tense, looming general election in November, the US may also have to weather an unusually high number of hurricanes battering the Atlantic coast this year.  Meteorologists at Colorado State University are predicting that 16 named storms will strike during this year’s…

After yet another destructive hurricane season in 2019, top hurricane forecasters from Colorado State University on Thursday said we can expect major activity again this year."We anticipate that the 2020 Atlantic basin hurricane season will have above-normal activity," the forecast said. In addition, there is an “above-average probability for major hurricanes…