Latest Hurricane Florence Stories
The sixth tropical storm of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season formed over the past weekend, and NASA kept an eye on its progression. Tropical Storm Florence was born in the eastern Atlantic and weakened when it interacted with dry air. On Friday, August 3, the low pressure area known as "System 90L" was being watched for development. It was located south of the Cape Verde Islands off the African coast. By the early evening (Eastern Daylight Time) it quickly organized. System 90L...
Residents of the U.S. Gulf coast thought they were getting a break this hurricane season until Ida showed up. Today, November 9, Ida is a hurricane and is headed for a landfall in the western Florida Panhandle after midnight. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-12 captured a look at Ida's extensive clouds this morning, and they stretch from Florida's west coast to eastern Texas. At 8:30 a.m. ET (7:30 CT), showers and thunderstorms had already spread into eastern Texas,...
Officials in Bermuda advised residents to avoid the Atlantic Ocean Friday as Hurricane Bertha slowly advanced on the island with 85 mph winds. Gusts of 105 mph were recorded as the storm moved northwest at 7 mph 350 miles south-southeast of Bermuda, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami reported at 5 a.m. The center said the Category 1 hurricane was expected to turn toward the north or north-northeast and develop an even slower forward motion during the next 48 hours....
By Tom Brown MIAMI (Reuters) - The sixth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Florence, formed in the distant Atlantic on Tuesday and could become a hurricane as it moves toward the United States, U.S. forecasters said. Tropical Storm Florence was about 935 miles east of the Lesser Antilles by 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) and moving west at 12 mph (19 kph), the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. Long-range computer tracking models projected that the swirling mass of...
MIAMI (Reuters) - The sixth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Florence, formed in the distant Atlantic on Tuesday and could become a hurricane as it moves toward the United States, U.S. forecasters said. Tropical Storm Florence was about 935 miles east of the Lesser Antilles by 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) and moving to the west at 12 miles per hour (19 km per hour), the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.
By Marc Serota PENSACOLA, Fla. (Reuters) - Hurricane Dennis swamped homes, ripped off roofs and felled power lines and trees when it hurtled into northwest Florida on Sunday with 120-mph (190-kph) winds, strewing debris anew over an area recovering from a devastating storm last year. But despite fears among coastal residents of a repeat of the widespread damage from September's Hurricane Ivan, the hurricane delivered a less punishing blow. "We dodged the bullet on the most part although our...
