Hurricane
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Florida braces to face powerful 155 kmph Hurricane Idalia, NASA releases horrific view from space
World | Aug 30, 2023, 08:10 AM ISTThe National Weather Service in Tallahassee called Idalia "an unprecedented event" since no major hurricanes on record have ever passed through the bay abutting the Big Bend region.
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Hurricane Hilary: Earthquake hits California as it witnesses deadliest tropical storm in 84 years
World | Aug 21, 2023, 08:49 AM ISTHilary made landfall along the Mexican coast in a sparsely populated area about 250 kilometres south of Ensenada, then moved through mudslide-prone Tijuana, threatening the improvised homes that cling to hillsides just south of the US border.
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Hurricane Hilary: California declares emergency as first devastating storm to hit region in 84 years
World | Aug 20, 2023, 08:27 AM ISTForecasters said the storm is still expected to enter the history books as the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years and bring along flash floods, mudslides, isolated tornadoes, high winds and widespread power outages.
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US: Hurricane Lisa strengthens into Category 1, heads towards Belize coast in Central America
World | Nov 02, 2022, 09:15 PM ISTThe U.S. National Hurricane Center said Lisa had maximum sustained winds of 130 kph. The storm’s centre was about 90 kilometres east-southeast of Belize City and moving west at 22 kph.
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Millions trapped in Florida as Ian heads to South Carolina
World | Sep 30, 2022, 12:00 PM ISTFlorida: Rescue crews piloted boats and waded through inundated streets Thursday to save thousands of Floridians trapped amid flooded homes and shattered buildings left by Hurricane Ian, which crossed into the Atlantic Ocean and churned toward South Carolina.
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Hurricane Ian: 2.5 million trapped without power as deadly storm drenches Florida
World | Sep 29, 2022, 07:02 PM ISTHurricane Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, damaging the roof of a hospital intensive care unit, and knocking out power to 2.5 million people as it dumped rain across the peninsula on Thursday.
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NASA delays moon rocket launch due to potential hurricane
Science | Sep 24, 2022, 09:25 PM ISTGiven the forecast uncertainties, NASA decided Saturday to forgo Tuesday's planned launch attempt and instead prepare the 322-foot (98-metre) rocket for a possible return to its hangar.
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Yearender 2021: Natural calamities that hit the world hard | SEE PICS
World | Dec 30, 2021, 03:09 PM ISTAs coronavirus pandemic raged on for the second year, a number of countries around the world battled a wave of extreme weather events from wildfire in California to floods in Australia.
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Storm Ida's mayhem in New York; subway, streets flooded | WATCH
World | Sep 02, 2021, 02:37 PM ISTSubway stations and tracks became so flooded that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority suspended all service. Videos posted online showed subway riders standing on seats in cars filled with water.
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Hurricane Ida lashes Louisiana, knocks out New Orleans power
World | Aug 30, 2021, 07:16 AM ISTThe Category 4 Hurricane Ida hit on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier.
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Hurricane Ida rapidly intensifies into dangerous Category 4
World | Aug 29, 2021, 01:04 PM ISTHurricane Ida is set to hit the area tomorrow as a Category 4 storm.
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Hurricane Ida: US deploys 500 FEMA emergency personnel to deal with projected landfall
World | Aug 29, 2021, 08:18 AM ISTForecasters warned residents to rush preparations Saturday ahead of an intensifying Hurricane Ida.
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Hurricane Grace hits Mexico’s Gulf coast, dissipates; 8 dead
World | Aug 22, 2021, 07:36 AM ISTGrace hit Mexico’s Gulf shore as a major Category 3 storm before weakening on Saturday, drenching coastal and inland areas in its second landfall in the country in two days.
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New England preps for 1st hurricane in 30 years with Henri
World | Aug 21, 2021, 08:24 AM ISTNew Englanders, bracing for their first direct hit by a hurricane in 30 years, are taking precautions as Tropical Storm Henri barrels toward the southern New England coast.
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Tropical storm Eta makes landfall in Florida; expected to become hurricane
World | Nov 09, 2020, 10:40 AM ISTA strengthening Tropical Storm Eta made landfall on Florida’s Lower Matecumbe Key on Sunday night, days after leaving scores of dead and over 100 missing in Mexico and Central America.
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New storm Zeta a hurricane threat to Mexico, US Gulf Coast
World | Oct 26, 2020, 07:38 AM ISTNewly formed Tropical Storm Zeta strengthened Sunday in the western Caribbean and will probably become a hurricane before hitting Mexico’s resort-dotted Yucatan Peninsula and the US Gulf Coast in coming days. Zeta was the earliest named 27th Atlantic storm recorded in an already historic hurricane season.
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Powerful hurricane Delta to hit Louisiana
World | Oct 09, 2020, 11:27 AM ISTHurricane Delta, which has now strengthened into a Category 3 storm, was growing more powerful and threatening to hit the US state of Louisiana on Friday, prompting mass evacuations, according to officials.
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Dangerous Hurricane Delta closing in on Mexico’s Yucatan
World | Oct 07, 2020, 10:04 AM ISTHurricane Delta rapidly intensified into a dangerous Category 4 storm Tuesday while on a course to hammer Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and then continue on to the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week.
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Rescuers reach people cut off by Gulf Coast hurricane
World | Sep 18, 2020, 07:31 AM ISTRescuers on the Gulf Coast used boats and high-water vehicles Thursday to reach people cut off by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally, even as a second round of flooding took shape along rivers and creeks swollen by the storm’s heavy rains.
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‘Huge rainmaker’: Hurricane Sally threatens historic floods
World | Sep 16, 2020, 07:39 AM ISTHeavy rain, pounding surf and flash floods hit parts of the Florida Panhandle and the Alabama coast on Tuesday as Hurricane Sally lumbered toward land at a painfully slow pace, threatening as much as 30 inches of rain and dangerous, historic flooding.