A solar 'megastorm', expected to hit Earth in the near future, could knock out the planet's communication satellites, cause power cuts and disrupt crucial navigation aids and aircraft avionics, experts have warned. The extreme space storm is caused by the Sun ejecting billions of tonnes of highly-energetic matter travelling at 1609344 kilometres per hour. ...
05:06 PM, Feb 07, 2013
New York: Frustration grew for superstorm Sandy's victims in the U.S. Northeast on Friday, many of whom were left with no power, no gasoline and little information about when their shattered lives might return to normal. While Manhattan prepared to host the annual New York City Marathon on Sunday, acute gasoline shortages in the city's storm-battered outer boroughs and New Jersey led to long lines and short tempers. Tankers finally...
11:20 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Many New Yorkers have been without electricity since Monday as the US braced for superstorm Sandy. While power has been restored in 3.2 million homes, 4.8 homes still remain without power. Meanwhile, the US Presidential campaigns are in full swing. ...
11:00 AM, Nov 02, 2012
Indian-American student Abhik Saha in Maryland spoke to CNN-IBN and narrated his experience as superstorm Sandy hit the US East Coast. Eleven people are dead in New York and three other states, while over 50 million people are said to be affected. Over 12,000 flights have been cancelled. ...
10:23 AM, Oct 30, 2012
Millions of Americans over a 700-mile stretch across eight states up and down the East Coast prepared to meet the onslaught of approaching Hurricane Sandy and its potentially devastating impact. President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in the national capital as also Maryland, Massachusetts and New York as he headed back to Washington to monitor the situation from the White House after changing his campaign plans. Washington's Metro ...
02:06 PM, Oct 29, 2012
The US is bracing for Hurricane Sandy. People all along the Eastern Seaboard are making all possible arrangements to keep them out of harm's way. The Category One storm is churning off the coast of North Carolina, packing maximum sustained winds of 75-miles-per-hour. Forecasters fear it could collide with a cold front and morph into a 'superstorm'. ...
11:24 AM, Oct 29, 2012
The projected storm surge from Hurricane Sandy is a "worst case scenario" with devastating waves and tides predicted for the highly populated New York City metro area, government forecasters said Sunday. The more they observe it, the more the experts worry about the water - which usually kills and does more damage than winds in hurricanes. In this case, seas will be amped up by giant waves and full-moon-powered high ...
11:16 AM, Oct 29, 2012
US Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have had to postpone their plans due to Hurricane Sandy. Their campaign plans can change depending on the gravity of the tragedy as it will make campaigning difficult. Meanwhile, early voting camps have been shut as a precaution on the US east coast. ...
10:34 AM, Oct 29, 2012
New York: Airlines hastily canceled flights in the Northeast Sunday as Hurricane Sandy moved up the coast. The massive storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights. Major carriers such as American Airlines, JetBlue and Delta planned Sunday night to cancel all flights into and out of three area airports in New York,...
07:08 AM, Oct 29, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama said Sunday that the storm taking aim at the East Coast is a "serious and big storm" that will be slow-moving and might take time to clear up. Obama met with federal emergency officials Sunday for an update on the storm's path and the danger it poses to the Mid-Atlantic and New England. The storm is set to hit one week before Election Day. Asked whether...
12:10 AM, Oct 29, 2012
1. A Northbound Hurricane Hurricane Sandy is moving slowly toward the north-northeast but is expected to turn to the north and west later Sunday and Monday, forecasters say. At some point, it's expected to become what's known as an extratropical storm. Unlike a tropical system like a hurricane, which gets its power from warm ocean waters, extratropical systems are driven by temperature contrasts in the atmosphere. Although Sandy is currently...
10:56 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Bloomsburg: The National Weather Service has downgraded Sandy from a hurricane to a tropical storm but warns that "widespread impacts" are still expected into next week for the US East Coast. The storm was expected to increase in speed and move away from the Bahamas and parallel to the southeast coast of the United States later this weekend. Maximum sustained winds dropped to near 70 mph early Saturday, pushing it...
02:56 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Washington: Millions of people across the eastern United States baked in record heat on Saturday after deadly thunderstorms downed powerlines from Indiana to Maryland, killing at least 12 people and leaving over 3 million homes and businesses without power. Emergencies were declared in Washington DC, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia because of damage from overnight storms, which unleashed hurricane-force winds across a 500-mile (800-km) stretch of the mid-Atlantic region. President...
12:31 PM, Jul 01, 2012
Washington: Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists said in a new report issued on Wednesday. The greatest threat from extreme weather is to highly populated, poor regions of the world, the report warns, but no corner of the globe - from Mumbai to Miami...
12:34 AM, Mar 29, 2012
Kentucky: Rescue teams and residents combed through storm-wracked towns to assess damage on Saturday from a chain of tornadoes that cut a 1,000-mile swath of destruction from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico, as the death toll crept up to at least 39 people. The fast-moving twisters spawned by massive thunderstorms splintered blocks of homes, damaged schools and a prison, and tossed around vehicles like toys, killing 20 people...
08:39 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Joplin: A monster tornado killed at least 116 people in Joplin, Missouri when it tore through the heart of the small city, ripping the roof off a hospital and destroying thousands of homes and businesses. Weather officials said the tornado that hit the city of 50,000 at dinner time on Sunday was the deadliest single tornado in the country since 1947 and the ninth-deadliest tornado of all time, they said....
07:09 AM, May 24, 2011
Tuscaloosa: President Barack Obama promised federal aid on Friday to the tornado-ravaged US South, where deadly twisters have killed at least 339 people and caused billions of dollars in damage. Obama toured smashed homes and met survivors on a visit to the worst-hit state, Alabama. It was one of seven southern US states mauled by recent tornadoes and storms which have caused insured losses of between $2 billion and $5...
06:06 PM, Apr 30, 2011
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Southerners found their emergency safety net shredded on Friday as they tried to emerge from the US' deadliest tornado disaster since the Great Depression. Emergency buildings are wiped out. Bodies are stored in refrigerated trucks. Authorities are begging for such basics as flashlights. In one neighborhood, the storms even left firefighters to work without a truck. The death toll from Wednesday's storms reached 329 across seven states, including...
08:57 AM, Apr 30, 2011
Alabama: Firefighters searched one splintered pile after another for survivors on Thursday, combing the remains of houses and neighborhoods pulverized by the nation's deadliest tornado outbreak in almost four decades. At least 290 people were killed across six states in the US - more than two-thirds of them in Alabama, where large cities bore the half-mile-wide scars the twisters left behind. The death toll from Wednesday's storms seems out of...
07:50 AM, Apr 29, 2011
