Tag: storm
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Tropical Storm Sara makes landfall in Belize after drenching Honduras
Tropical Storm Sara made landfall in Belize on Sunday as forecasters expect heavy rain to cause life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides. The storm made landfall near Dangriga, about 55 miles southeast of the capital Belmopan, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. This comes after Sara drenched the northern coast of Honduras, where it stalled since Friday,…
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Tropical Storm Sara pounds Central America with torrential rains as forecasters warn of life-threatening flash flooding
Tropical Storm Sara scraped along northern Honduras’ Caribbean coast early Friday, dumping torrential rains across parts of Central America and southern Mexico after making an initial landfall overnight. Sara hit land about 105 miles west-northwest of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Honduras-Nicaragua border, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. That is…
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Tropical Storm Sara forms in Caribbean
Tropical Storm Sara forms in Caribbean – CBS News Watch CBS News Tropical Storm Sara formed in the Caribbean on Thursday and is churning west. It is forecast to bring life-threatening flooding to portions of Central America this weekend. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.…
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Tropical Storm Sara near Mexico, could strengthen and slam U.S.
Tropical Storm Sara near Mexico, could strengthen and slam U.S. – CBS News Watch CBS News Tropical Storm Sara is sitting off the shore of Honduras and Mexico and could travel to the Gulf of Mexico and strengthen over warmer waters. CBS News Bay Area meteorologist Jessica Burch has the latest forecast. Be the first…
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Tropical Storm Sara forms in the Caribbean
Tropical Storm Sara formed in the Caribbean on Thursday, becoming the 18th named storm of the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season. The system, previously called Tropical Depression 19, developed in the western Caribbean earlier this week and intensified while traveling westward on a path toward Central America. Sara has sustained winds of 40 mph and is…
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After Hurricane Helene, a North Carolina woman uses the power of social media to reunite families with old photographs lost in the storm
We’ve seen the images of destruction, debris and flooding left behind from Hurricane Helene. But other images also came out of the storm: family photos – snapshots of happy memories and important milestones – left behind in the mess. After the deadly hurricane in October, Taylor Schenker, who lives in Canton, North Carolina, nearby hard-hit…
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Hurricane Rafael grows into a Category 2 storm as it bears down on Cuba
San Juan, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Rafael swelled into a Category 2 storm early Wednesday as it swirled past the Cayman Islands, and it was forecast to rapidly intensify before making landfall later in the day in western Cuba. It was another stroke of bad news for Cuba, which has been struggling with blackouts while…
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Gunmen storm hospital, kill patient and 2 police officers in Mexico
Gunmen stormed a hospital in Mexico Monday to attack a man recovering from a gunshot wound, killing him and two police officers, authorities said. The attackers shot the man more than 10 times in the central town of Atlixco, then killed police who tried to stop them from fleeing, the public security secretariat in Puebla…
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Tropical storm warning issued for Jamaica as weather system in Caribbean expected to strengthen
Developers designing homes to withstand hurricanes Developers designing Florida homes to withstand hurricanes 02:11 A weather system in the southwestern Caribbean is expected to develop and strengthen this week, prompting a tropical storm warning for Jamaica and a hurricane watch for the Cayman Islands to be issued Sunday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.…