With winds reaching as high as 120 miles per hour, the Category 3 storm devastated New Orleans and coastal Louisiana—and its effects are still felt today.
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The 1983 Atlantic Hurricane Season was among the quietest in recorded history. At 4 named storms, the season featured the fewest recorded named storms in the satellite era [1]. This followed the comparatively inactive 1982 hurricane season. The two seasons are the only consecutive two-year perio...
5/12/2024 by Larisha Paul and Althea Legaspi Rollingstone.com Eurovision: Switzerland Wins the Most Divisive Song Contest In Competition’s 68-Year History Swiss performer Nemo has won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, beating Croatian artist Baby Lasagna, who finished second, in what was perhaps...
1953: Year when "Florence" was first used as a hurricane name, making it one of the longest-lived names in NHC naming history, before the name was retired in 2019. Naming of hurricanes and tropical storms started in 1950 with phonetic alphabet names, followed by a switch to female names ...
Reviving the pre-Katrina history One narrative that has emerged in the social media landscape is howHurricane Katrinawas not an unexpected disaster caused solely by a natural hazard, but rather a human-induced catastrophe as a result of technological and socio-political failures. Nearly a third of...
Hurricane Helene by the numbers.ABC News, NWS MORE: PHOTOS: Hurricane Helene makes landfall in the South 15-foot storm surge The storm surge was more than 15 feet above ground level in parts of Florida, including Keaton Beach and Steinhatchee, both in Taylor County, and Horses...
By Nicole Valdes https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/hurricane-milton-2024/#post-update-cede5735 link copied 6:03 PM / October 11, 2024 More than 2,100 Florida gas stations have limited fuel More than 2,100 gas stations in Florida had limited fuel Friday evening, according to numbers fr...
Hurricanes were exported in small numbers toBelgium,Yugoslavia,Romania, andTurkey. More than 14,000 planes were manufactured before production was halted in 1944, some 1,400 of them by the Canadian Car & Foundry Company. In the dark days of early 1942, Hurricanes were exported to theSoviet Un...
The conservancy called this the “largest natural disaster—in terms of geographic footprint—to impact the Appalachian Trail in its 100-year history.” CNN’s Elizabeth Wolfe contributed to this report. 11:22 a.m. 9:02:47, October 3, 2024 How to protect yourself against fraud and ...