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A mass of showers and thunderstorms that has been sprawling across Texas and northern Mexico in recent days over South Texas consolidated into Tropical Storm Arthur on Wednesday. As of late Wednesday, the storm had moved inland and lost wind intensity, becoming a tropical rainstorm. Life-threatening flooding, property damage and disruptions to commerce and travel...
Just days after a severe weather outbreak affected the Plains and Midwest, a new severe weather outbreak is unfolding into Wednesday night for the storm-weary region. Along with a powerful wind gust event that could evolve into a derecho, multiple tornadoes are likely and some could be strong and long-lived. The setup will bring dangerous...
Tropical Storm Arthur has made landfall along the coast of Texas, and as the first storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, it is bringing significant flooding to the Gulf Coast. Arthur formed on Wednesday after a sprawling area of showers and thunderstorms over Texas tracked over the warm waters of the Gulf, which helped it...
Two large wildfires burning in western Miami-Dade County are sending smoke into nearby communities, reducing visibility and worsening air quality across parts of South Florida. The Quarry 2 Fire, which began Monday afternoon near Northwest 137th Avenue and Northwest 41st Street, has burned more than 15,900 acres west of Doral, according to the Florida Forest...
Following the severe weather outbreak in the Midwest on Wednesday, powerful thunderstorms are forecast to rattle parts of the East on Thursday and return to the Plains and Midwest over the weekend. As a cold front pushes into the Northeast on Thursday, winds will be unusually strong for June, even without thunderstorms, and capable of...
A 30-year-old climber fell to his death while free-soloing a volcanic crater in Yemen on Friday. Al-Qaqa Ibn Antar was climbing the steep rock walls of the volcanic Hardah Dam crater in the province of Dhale when he fell into the 120-meter (393-foot) crater, according to the Civil Defense of Yemen, which posted a video on Facebook of the fall. Diving and water rescue teams descended to the bottom of the crater to retrieve the body in "one of the most...
A storm packing an abundance of moisture has the potential to evolve into a tropical depression or even be named as it drifts along the northern Gulf. The main threat from the brewing tropical rainstorm will be torrential downpours, which could lead to life-threatening flooding in some areas. The first name on the list for...
The nights leading up to the summer solstice will offer one of June’s best astronomical sights as the crescent moon joins Venus, Jupiter and Mercury in a low, glittering lineup in the western sky. The three-night event began on Tuesday after sunset, when the moon appeared near the planetary trio huddled low on the horizon....
Just in time for America's 250th birthday, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool received a new paint job. But days after the pool was refilled, an unwelcome green sludge began taking over the new blue surface. Now, National Park Service crews are working to control what experts say was likely an inevitable problem: a large algae...
Marine experts are sounding the alarm that El Niño's impacts are expected to disrupt marine ecosystems and threaten species throughout the Pacific Ocean. Experts from the Aquarium of the Pacific and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) told reporters on June 11 that warming oceans and a developing El Niño could have significant consequences for marine life off the coast of Southern California. El Niño can fuel marine heat...
