Articles filed under Severe Weather
-
Pacific and Atlantic hurricanes Norma and Tammy make landfall on Saturday in Mexico and Barbuda
Oct 22, 2023 8:01 AM - Hurricane Norma came ashore near the Pacific resort of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula on Saturday afternoon. Hours later, Hurricane Tammy made landfall on the Caribbean island of Barbuda.
-
Tornados in Illinois are increasing, and climate change may play a role, weather experts say
Oct 15, 2023 5:00 AM - As Illinois puts an unusually tornado-dense year behind it, there is growing evidence that they are not only becoming more frequent and damaging, but that their range is changing in ways that could have repercussions in Illinois and states to the east.
-
How Argonne project could help communities better prepare for extreme flooding
Oct 13, 2023 3:17 PM - Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory in DuPage County are using supercomputers to develop a dataset that provides hyperlocal flood risk estimates.
-
Deaths rise to 47 after an icy flood swept through India's Himalayan northeast
Oct 7, 2023 7:09 AM - Rescuers found more bodies overnight as they dug through slushy debris and ice-cold water in a hunt for survivors after a glacial lake burst through a dam in India's Himalayan northeast, washing away houses and bridges and forcing thousands to flee.
-
Tropical Storm Philippe chugs toward Bermuda on a path to Atlantic Canada and New England
Oct 5, 2023 11:06 AM - Tropical Storm Philippe chugs toward Bermuda on a path to Atlantic Canada and New England
-
Storm Elias slams into a city in central Greece, filling homes with mud and knocking out power
Sep 28, 2023 2:31 PM - A second powerful storm in less than a month hammered parts of central Greece Thursday, sweeping away roads, smashing bridges and flooding thousands of homes.
-
Left behind and grieving, survivors of Libya floods call for accountability
Sep 20, 2023 7:42 AM - Abdel-Hamid al-Hassadi survived the devastating flooding in eastern Libya but he lost some 90 people from his extended family.
-
How Naperville leaders are progressing on disaster response plan two years after tornadoSep 19, 2023 5:30 AM - More than two years after an EF-3 tornado hit sections of Naperville, officials are working to implement an emergency response plan for the city.
-
New England, eastern Canada hunker down as Hurricane Lee's high winds and brutal rains approach
Sep 15, 2023 3:04 PM - After a deluge of rain, flooding, sinkholes and tornadoes this week, New England is about to face Hurricane Lee.
-
Searchers look for more than 10,000 missing in flooded Libyan city where death toll eclipsed 11,000
Sep 15, 2023 3:03 PM - Libyan authorities limited access to the flooded city of Derna on Friday to make it easier for searchers to dig through the mud and hollowed-out buildings for the more than 10,000 people still missing and presumed dead following a disaster that has already claimed more than 11,000 lives.
bottom clear