A stretch of Australia's Sunshine Coast has been blanketed in sea foam, swept ashore by the remnants of a tropical cyclone that struck Australia last week. ...
02:22 PM, Jan 29, 2013
Superstorm Sandy has left 11 people dead in New York and three other states. Reports say the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant, on the New Jersey coast has been put on alert due to high sea levels caused by storm. There have been more than 12,000 flight cancellations so far. ...
09:19 AM, Oct 30, 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
Ship Bottom, NJ: Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don't get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the rare behemoth storm inexorably gathering in the eastern US will afflict a third of the country with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow, say officials who warned millions in coastal areas to get out of the way. "We're looking at impact of greater than 50 to 60...
07:42 AM, 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
Florida: Tropical Storm Isaac lashed south Florida with winds and heavy rain on Monday after battering the Caribbean, threatening to interrupt most US offshore oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and disrupting plans for the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Isaac is expected to strengthen to a Category 2 hurricane and hit the Gulf Coast somewhere between Florida and Louisiana at midweek, on or near the seventh anniversary of...
08:46 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Cape Canaveral: A tropical storm forced the delay of the US space agency's launch of a pair of satellites to Earth's harsh radiation belts, just four minutes before the rockets fired. The countdown was halted early on Saturday for the second time in as many days. NASA initially said it would try again on Sunday. But with Tropical Storm Isaac bearing toward Florida, launch managers decided to move the unmanned...
10:35 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Dominica: Tropical Storm Ernesto churned over open waters early Saturday on a path toward Jamaica and Mexico after dumping heavy rain on islands in the eastern Caribbean. The US National Hurricane Center said Ernesto was expected to approach Jamaica on Sunday and strengthen into a hurricane on Monday on a route that would take it to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula by mid-week. On Friday, Dominica closed its international airport for a...
11:00 AM, Aug 04, 2012
London: Suicide has become the second leading cause of death of young people in India, which has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, according to a study published in Lancet. "Suicide kills nearly as many Indian men aged 15-29 as transportation accidents and nearly as many young women as complications from pregnancy and childbirth," said the study's lead author Vikram Patel, of London School of Hygiene &...
09:59 AM, Jun 22, 2012
London: A British woman who contracted rabies after being bitten by a dog during a recent visit to India has died, making her first victim of the disease in the country since 2002, health officials announced on Monday night. The unnamed woman was being treated was diagnosed with the potentially life-threatening disease at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London. Another case of rabies has been reported from Leeds, where...
02:48 AM, May 29, 2012
Manzanillo: Hurricane Jova bore down on a vulnerable Mexican coastline late on Tuesday as people hunkered down in homes and shelters in tourist resorts and flood-prone mountain villages. Jova had weakened some before swirling to within 60 miles (95 kilometers) of shore, but it still had maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (160 kph), the US National Hurricane Center reported. The forecast path pointed to landfall in the middle of...
09:49 AM, Oct 12, 2011
Mexico: Mexico's state oil company said on Friday it was searching for 10 workers from a Texas-based company who evacuated from a research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Tropical Storm Nate. Petroleos Mexicanos said it has two ships searching in the area where the workers, employed by Houston-based Geokinetics Inc., called for help on Thursday afternoon after leaving a vessel known as a liftboat, the Trinity II,...
02:02 AM, Sep 10, 2011
Wilkes-Barre: Nearly 100,000 people in Pennsylvania and New York were ordered to flee the rising Susquehanna River on Thursday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee produced more flooding in the US. At Binghamton, New York, the wide river broke a flood record and flowed over retaining walls downtown. About 128 kilometres downstream in Wilkes-Barre, the river was projected to crest later today at 12.5 metres, the same height as...
02:47 AM, Sep 09, 2011
New Orleans: Tropical Storm Lee crawled onto southern Louisiana's coast on Sunday as New Orleans prepared for one of the biggest tests of its flood defenses since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005. The National Hurricane Center said Lee's center was about 125 miles (200 km) west-southwest of New Orleans, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (72 kph) at around 11 am EDT (1500 GMT), and tropical storm-force...
10:40 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Bermuda: Tropical Storm Jose spun just to the west of Bermuda on Sunday, buffeting the wealthy British territory with gusty winds and intermittent showers before heading out into the open Atlantic. The 10th named storm of the season passed about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of Bermuda with sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph), causing some storm surge in western parts of the isolated island chain. There were no...
08:32 AM, Aug 29, 2011
Thousands were left homeless as tropical cyclone Phet brought heavy rain and flooding to Pakistan's coast. ...
05:13 PM, Jun 07, 2010
![Ten killed as cyclone Phet strikes Pakistan]( "Ten killed as cyclone Phet strikes Pakistan")
At least 10 people were electrocuted in Karachi where heavy rains disrupted power transmission. ...
02:15 PM, Jun 07, 2010
![Cyclone 'Phet' could cause rains in Saurasthra]( "Cyclone 'Phet' could cause rains in Saurasthra")
Gujarat's coastal districts are on alert as Phet is likely to move north-eastwards towards Pakistan. ...
09:45 AM, Jun 06, 2010
Flooding and landslides from the season's first tropical storm have killed at least 142 people in Guatemala. ...
11:06 AM, Jun 01, 2010
![73 killed in Guatemala tropical storm]( "73 killed in Guatemala tropical storm")
More than 74,000 people have been evacuated from the affected areas. ...
10:04 AM, May 31, 2010
