Articles filed under Severe Weather
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Pacific and Atlantic hurricanes Norma and Tammy make landfall on Saturday in Mexico and BarbudaOct 22, 2023 1:00 am - CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico - Hurricane Norma came ashore near the Pacific resort of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula on Saturday afternoon...
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Tornados in Illinois are increasing, and climate change may play a role, weather experts sayOct 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...
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How Argonne project could help communities better prepare for extreme floodingOct 12, 2023 11:00 pm - Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory in DuPage County are using supercomputers to develop a dataset that provides hyperlocal flood risk estimates. Scientists plan...
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Deaths rise to 47 after an icy flood swept through India's Himalayan northeastOct 07, 2023 1:00 am - GANGTOK, India - 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 d...
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Tropical Storm Philippe chugs toward Bermuda on a path to Atlantic Canada and New EnglandOct 05, 2023 1:00 am - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Tropical Storm Philippe aimed for Bermuda on Thursday on a path that would eventually take it to Atlantic Canada and eastern New England. The sto...
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Storm Elias slams into a city in central Greece, filling homes with mud and knocking out powerSep 28, 2023 1:00 am - VOLOS, Greece - A second powerful storm in less than a month hammered parts of central Greece on Thursday, sweeping away roads, smashing bridges and flooding thousands o...
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Left behind and grieving, survivors of Libya floods call for accountabilitySep 20, 2023 1:00 am - DERNA, Libya - Abdel-Hamid al-Hassadi survived the devastating flooding in eastern Libya but he lost some 90 people from his extended family. The 23-year-old law graduat...
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How Naperville leaders are progressing on disaster response plan two years after tornadoSep 19, 2023 5:30 am - More than two years after a tornado ripped through sections of Naperville, plans are being made to implement an emergency response plan for the city. A memo from Dan Nel...
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Searchers look for more than 10,000 missing in flooded Libyan city where death toll eclipsed 11,000Sep 15, 2023 1:00 am - DERNA, Libya - 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...
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New England, eastern Canada hunker down as Hurricane Lee's high winds and brutal rains approachSep 15, 2023 1:00 am - BAR HARBOR, Maine - New England harbors and fishing villages were being emptied of boats - and some were becoming ghost towns - as commercial fishermen and recreational ...