Earth’s accelerated warming trend continued this August, as the sweltering month proved to be one of the hottest Augusts in recorded history.
In fact, each of the last five Augusts are now the warmest since reliable record-keeping began nearly …
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How bad was Florence? Here’s a boat motoring down the interstate
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While flying a drone over the completely flooded four-lane Interstate 40 on Monday, the North Carolina Highway Patrol spotted an unusual sight: A motorized boat leaving a large wake over the highway.
The storm formerly known as Florence — which hit North Carolina as a Hurricane last Friday and then proceeded to drop historic rainfall over much of the state — has brought catastrophic and deadly flooding to inland cities and coastal communities alike.
Florence has demolished rainfall records.
Previously, North Carolina’s rainfall record from a storm was 24 inches, set by Hurricane Floyd nearly twenty years ago. On Monday, the National Weather Service reported that nearly 36 inches fell on Elizabethtown, North Carolina. At least 11 other areas also broke the old record. Read more…
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View More How bad was Florence? Here’s a boat motoring down the interstateHow flocks of birds got trapped inside the eye of Hurricane Florence
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In 1969, researchers spotted a black and white sooty tern in Michigan. This hardy seabird, however, had little business visiting the Midwest. The saltwater species usually spends its life in the tropics, more than 1,000 miles away.
Hurricane Camille — one of the most powerful storms in U.S. history — had trapped and carried the foreign creature to this distant land. Now similarly, tropical storm Florence, which made landfall Friday morning in North Carolina as a hurricane, has also ensnared birds deep inside the cyclone.
Using radar, several meteorologists have spotted the birds flying inside Florence’s eye. But why are they there? Read more…
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View More How flocks of birds got trapped inside the eye of Hurricane FlorenceNASA video shows massive scale of Hurricane Florence from space
On Friday morning, Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina, bringing extreme winds, surging seas, and huge amounts of rain to the coast.
While forecasters have been keeping a close eye on the storm from the ground, the International Space …
How you can help victims of Hurricane Florence
Hurricane Florence, a massive storm on course to strike North and South Carolina, finally made landfall Friday morning. The slow-moving hurricane is currently pounding the Atlantic coast with 90 mph winds, widespread coastal flooding, and sheets of r…
View More How you can help victims of Hurricane FlorenceThe Atlantic Ocean is packed with storms. What’s going on?
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The Atlantic Ocean is alive.
Including Hurricane Florence, there are currently four named storms — tempests with winds of at least 39 mph — churning in the Atlantic. This ties the record for the most named storms in the Atlantic at any one time.
And there could be more: There’s yet another collection of thunderstorms off in the Gulf of Mexico that has a decent, 50 percent shot, of becoming the fifth well-developed, named storm.
While there’s substantial evidence that climate change is having a major impact on the behavior of hurricanes, this current flurry of storms falls within the realm of expected activity for this time of year. Read more…
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Hurricane Florence could dump 17 trillion gallons of rain. Yeah, you read that right.
Hurricane Florence is slowly but surely moving toward landfall along the East Coast.
While its winds have decreased, making the storm a Category 2, it’s still an incredibly powerful and dangerous storm with extreme rains expected to fall over the cou…
Hurricane Florence is growing: 5 things to know about the monster storm
The nation’s eyes are on Hurricane Florence, which overcame some big odds to target the East Coast this week.
Regardless of where the storm ultimately lands in the Carolinas, the Southeastern U.S. is due for potentially unprecedented rainfall and vio…
High-definition video from space shows the extreme power of Hurricane Florence
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Hurricane Florence replaced its eyewall. What does that mean?
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Late Monday night, Hurricane Florence — the Category 4 storm barreling toward the East Coast of the U.S. — decided to replace its eyewall. And it’s threatening to do so again.
This dramatic-sounding event tends to make major hurricanes even stronger, and larger, explained Chris Slocum, a storm researcher specializing in the inner-core processes of hurricanes at Colorado State University.
But how does such an atmospheric event unfold for any storm, let alone the ominous Hurricane Florence with extreme winds forecast to blow just off the coast of the Carolinas late Thursday?
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View More Hurricane Florence replaced its eyewall. What does that mean?Will sea level rise make damage from Hurricane Florence worse?
Surging hurricane waters can throw around cars, boats, and houses like toys.
Six years ago, Hurricane Sandy pushed storm surges into the streets of Staten Island, New York, wrecking entire neighborhoods along the small island off the coast of M…
Watch hurricane hunters fly into the eye of an intensifying Hurricane Florence
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Storm scientists are swooping through Hurricane Florence as it increases in size and heads toward landfall on the East Coast later this week.
On Monday, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) team flew its four-propeller P-3 craft through the eye of Hurricane Florence, capturing stunning video of the Category 4 storm.
In the reprieve of the storm’s eye, NOAA hurricane scientist Heather Holbach captured Atlantic blue skies above Florence’s towering vertical walls from the hurricane hunter aircraft.
View from inside the eye of category 4 #HurricaneFlorence today onboard the NOAA P-3 #NOAA42. (Video credit: Heather Holbach) pic.twitter.com/eEYOI2PBnh
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