Tropical Storm Paula brought winds and heavy rain to the Cuban capital on Thursday, turning some low lying streets into shallow rivers, bending palm trees and sending waves crashing against the city’s famed Malecon sea wall. Paula lost its status as a category one hurricane just before making landfall in Cuba’s western tobacco growing area, [...]
Hurricane Igor, the season’s most powerful storm, headed toward Bermuda on a track that may threaten the island group this weekend, while Julia became the fifth hurricane of the season today over the eastern Atlantic. Igor was still a “dangerous” Category 4 storm, the second strongest on the 5-step Saffir-Simpson scale, after its winds dropped [...]
Forecasters say Igor has become the fourth hurricane of the Atlantic season with maximum winds near 75 mph. Late Saturday, it was well out in the Atlantic about 1230 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands. Forecasters say Hurricane Igor has rapidly strengthened to a Category 4 storm in the open Atlantic. It doesn’t immediately [...]
Forecasters say Igor has become the fourth hurricane of the Atlantic season with maximum winds near 75 mph (120 kph). The storm was far from land late Saturday. Forecasters say Igor could become a major hurricane by Monday. The storm was located about 1,230 miles (1,975 kilometers) west of the Cape Verde Islands and was [...]
While it is too early to extrapolate about the second mid-Atlantic storm of the season, Tropical Storm Danielle is forecast to become Hurricane Danielle later this week, and could rile the surf off the East Coast of the Mid-Atlantic states, forecasters say. The area is now entering peak hurricane season, which historically is usually at [...]