Fierce ‘weather bomb’ batters Britain
Saturday, December 10th, 2011 | Post a comment
Hurricane-force winds which have closed schools and cut off power to tens of thousands of homes were described as a “weather bomb” as they battered Britain.
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rise in extreme weather
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 | Post a comment
WASHINGTON – For a world already weary of weather catastrophes, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: more floods, more heat waves, more droughts and greater costs to deal with them.
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2010 hurricane season seen more active than feared
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 | One comment
A satellite image of Hurricane Katrina taken on August 29, 2005.
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The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be even more active than feared, leading U.S. forecasters said on Wednesday as they predicted 10 hurricanes, five of them major, with a 76 percent likelihood that a major hurricane would hit the U.S. coastline.
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“Super typhoon” bears down on flood-ravaged Philippines
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 | Post a comment
Children look out from a window of a partially submerged house in floodwaters brought on by Typhoon Ketsana, known locally as Ondoy, in San Pedro Laguna, south of Manila September 30, 2009. REUTERS/Erik de Castro
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines declared a nationwide state of calamity on Friday as a “super typhoon” bore down a week after flash floods killed nearly 300 people in and around Manila.
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Ike blasts Texas coast, floods homes, cuts power
Saturday, September 13th, 2008 | One comment
GALVESTON, Texas – Howling ashore with 110 mph winds, Hurricane Ike ravaged the Texas coast Saturday, flooding thousands of homes and businesses, shattering windows in Houston’s skyscrapers and knocking out power to millions of people.
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Gustav swells to dangerous Cat 3 storm off Cuba
Saturday, August 30th, 2008 | 10 comments
This image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Gustav taken at 6:55 a.m. EDT Saturday Aug. 30, 2008. Gustav swelled to a fearsome Category 3 hurricane early Saturday with winds of 115 mph as it approached western Cuba on a track to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast three years after Hurricane Katrina. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami called the storm ‘dangerous’ and said it had reached the status of a major hurricane, the second one of this Atlantic season after Bertha in July. 5 a.m. EDT Saturday, Gustav’s eye had left the Caymans behind and was about 255 miles east-southeast of the western tip of Cuba. It was moving northwest near 12 mph. (AP Photo/NOAA)
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Burma death toll worse than Tsunami
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | One comment
Buried … cars just visible under remains of Dedaye
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UN officials: Myanmar cyclone a ‘major, major disaster’
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | One comment
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Hungry crowds of survivors stormed the few shops that opened in Myanmar’s stricken Irrawaddy delta, where food and international aid has been scarce since a devastating cyclone killed more than 22,000 people, the U.N. said Wednesday.
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Myanmar believes at least 10,000 dead in cyclone: diplomat
Monday, May 5th, 2008 | 4 comments
ANGKOK (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military government has a provisional death toll of 10,000 from this weekend’s devastating cyclone, with another 3,000 missing, a diplomat said on Monday after a briefing from Foreign Minister Nyan Win.
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