Storms

Hurricane Jimena 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green


UPDATE: 9/3/09, 9:18 AM EST LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) - Hurricane Jimena pounded the middle of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula on Wednesday after la...

Hurricane Erika 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green


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Tropical Storm Danny 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green


AP Update: Aug. 28, 07:49 a.m. EST Forecasters say Tropical Storm Danny has weakened over the Atlantic and is barely a tropical storm. But a tr...

Hurricane Bill 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green


UPDATE 8/21 (1:50 PM EST) -- From The AP: MIAMI - Hurricane Bill has weakened to a Category 2 storm over the Atlantic as it nears Bermuda on track to...

Hurricane Claudette 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green


Claudette became the first tropical storm to hit the U.S. mainland this year when it made landfall in the Florida Panhandle early Monday, August 17, ...

Yonkers Hail Storm Ravages Homes: Boy Survives Because Mom Let Him Sleep In Basement

New York Daily News | Barry Paddock and Stephanie Gaskell | Posted 08.09.2009 | New York


A mom's decision to let her 7-year-old son sleep saved his life. Hours after Jennifer Crespo decided to leave her son Trent in the basement - rather ...

What To Do When Someone You Love Is Hurting

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living


Dr. Cara Barker

"Our wounds become the womb." ~Julian of Norwich Last night, as I trundled off to bed in the dark, I did so accompanied by rain pounding harder on th...

Storms Wipe Out Utilities, States Rethinking Budgets

Wall Street Journal | REBECCA SMITH | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business


A winter storm that knocked out power to more than 1.3 million homes and businesses from Arkansas to Ohio is likely to increase state inquiries into u...

Melting Snow Causing Heavy Flooding In Wash. State

AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 02.07.2009 | Home


SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — Rain and high winds lashed Washington state Wednesday, causing widespread avalanches, mudslides, flooding and road closures ...

Chances You'll Be Killed by an Asteroid in 2009

Keith Thomson | Posted 01.30.2009 | World


Keith Thomson

A computer video circulating the internet has rekindled fears that an asteroid will hit Earth and send mankind the way of the brontosaurus. Based on NASA projections, there is indeed a chance of this.

Midwest Braces For Possible Floods

AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 01.27.2009 | Chicago


CHICAGO — Summerlike storms pounded the Midwest on Saturday with hail, high winds and even funnel clouds, helping to thaw the ice after days of ...

NOAA Makes it Official: Extreme Weather Due to Climate Change

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.28.2008 | Green


Janet Ritz

Congress, candidates and electorate take note: The extreme weather the U.S. has been experiencing is due to climate change and is expected to become more extreme in the future.

Storms pop up in Plains as forecasters sound alarm

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home


WICHITA, Kan. — Tornadoes dropped onto the Great Plains on Thursday after forecasters warned of a potentially historic outbreak, causing some da...

Severe storms blamed for 3 deaths across the US

AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 06.12.2008 | Home


ANNANDALE, Va. — A band of storms that moved east from Indiana on Wednesday splintered homes, swept vehicles from flooded roads and dumped a his...

What's with the Weather? The La Niña-Tornado Connection

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living


Janet Ritz

Why has 2008 has seen a record outbreak of tornadoes in the United States from California to the Midwest, from the South through the central plains, to the Appalachian states?

Powerful Storm Forces China To Evacuate 1 Million People

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


A powerful storm drenched China's southeast coast Sunday after killing five people on Taiwan and prompting the mainland to evacuate more than 1 millio...