Brisbane, Australia CNN — A massive cyclone swirling off Australia’s western coast will likely make landfall as a category 5 storm – the strongest on the national scale – according to the country’s official forecaster. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) expects Cyclone Ilsa to cross the Pilbara coast of Western Australia Thursday evening or Friday … Read more
CNN — Hurricane Roslyn slammed into west-central Mexico on Sunday, bringing torrential rain and threatening inland flooding. “This rainfall could lead to flash flooding and landslides in areas of rugged terrain, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. CNN Weather As of 2 p.m. ET Sunday, Roslyn was centered about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south-southeast of … Read more
CNN — Protestors in Cuba who have been taking to the streets after Hurricane Ian damaged the island’s already faltering power grid could face criminal charges, Cuba’s Attorney General’s office said Saturday. In a note published in the island’s communist party newspaper, Granma, prosecutors said they were investigating cases of arson and vandalism of state … Read more
CNN — Residents on the small resort island of Polillo are accustomed to severe weather – their island sits in the northeastern Philippines, on the edge of the Pacific Ocean where storms typically gather strength and turn into typhoons. But even they were stunned by the intensity of Typhoon Noru, known locally as Typhoon Karding, … Read more
9.08pm BST21:08 Joe Biden is now touring a neighborhood in Queens, New York, that was severely impacted by the flooding from Hurricane Ida last week. Joe Biden, along with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chuck Schumer, tours a neighborhood affected by Hurricane Ida in Queens, New York. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images The president was joined on the … Read more
Donald Trump will announce a run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 “any day now”, the Ohio congressman and prominent Trump supporter Jim Jordan reportedly said in Iowa on Thursday. A spokesman for Jordan denied he made the comment to The Undercurrent, a liberal website. The reporter who said he did, Lauren Windsor, tweeted … Read more
Nearly all of Louisiana lost electrical power on Monday after one of the strongest hurricanes to strike the region downed power lines, littered roads with debris and flooded isolated communities south of New Orleans in the US. After dumping a deluge of rain in Louisiana by late Monday afternoon and killing at least two people, Ida was … Read more
Sheriffs say person killed by falling tree in Prairieville as city of New Orleans falls back on power generators after network fails Report: New Orleans loses power as category 4 storm hits 5.32am BST More than one million customers in Louisiana are without power, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks outages. The energy company Entergy earlier … Read more
MEXICO CITY—Mexico began evacuating residents and tourists in and around the Caribbean resort of Cancún ahead of the expected arrival of Hurricane Delta, which strengthened rapidly Tuesday as it moved toward the Yucatán Peninsula. The U.S. National Hurricane Center upgraded Delta to a Category 4 storm at 11:20 a.m. ET, with maximum sustained winds of … Read more
A top Trump administration health official predicted that a Covid-19 vaccine may not be available to the general public until next summer as the daily number of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. climbed to roughly 40,000. The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield, said he believes a vaccine … Read more