Hurricane News

Millions of mosquito eggs laid across southern Texas after Hurricane Ike hit the coast last summer are waiting for the little bit of rain and hot summer days they need to hatch.

JACKSON - Gulfport Mayor Brent Warr, the highest-ranking public official charged with Hurricane Katrina fraud, won't be allowed to send questionnaires to potential jurors in his federal trial.

Authorities have identified an Eastham man who died after being struck by lightning while shellfishing off Cape Cod.

Louisiana won't have to pick up a share of the cost for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's immediate response and recovery operations after Hurricane Ike.

A new paper by Kim, Webster, and Curry in Science hits the presses Friday, with the press embargo lifted Thursday at 2 pm.

Serial arsonists have torched 30 palm trees since May, prompting a tree service owner to offer a $1,000 reward for information that leads to charges.

People attending and exhibiting at this weekend's Summer Arts Festival along the Gene Leahy Mall said they remember how a severe wind storm a year ago threatened to shut many of them down.

The National Weather Service has posted a hazardous weather outlook for this afternoon, as thunderstorms with strong winds, hail and heavy rain may occur throughout Fairfield County this afternoon.

The deluge also hit Romania, where four people were injured by lightning during a heavy storm north of Bucharest, with heavy flooding also reported in several regions of Austria, Germany and Poland.

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Haylee deStrake captured these images on the outskirts of Maymont, at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The population of New Orleans grew 8.2 percent in 2008, faster than any other large city in the U.S., according to population estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

A severe thunderstorm that swept across the state Tuesday has left a mess behind, particularly in central Oklahoma.

A 49-year-old woman has died after being hit by a falling gum tree as gale-force winds of more than 100 km/h lash Victoria.

The north and east of the North Island is expected to get drenched in the next 24 hours by a storm which caused slips, flooding and lightning across the North Island overnight.

Tornado confirmed in Hillsborough Co. Posted By: daniel trotter 5 mins ago The National Weather Service confrims an EF0 tornado was spotted in the Carrollwood area of Hillsborough County on Tuesday afternoon.

TIS THE SEASON: The Central Weather Bureau said that an average of three typhoons hit Taiwan each year, but that in the past five years this figure had risen to four By Shelley Shan STAFF REPORTER Wednesday, Jul 01, 2009, Page 2 The nation enters typhoon season today and the Central Weather Bureau says that three to five typhoons or tropical storms ...

A retirement home was evacuated after lightning struck the building and started a smoldering fire.

More than three months after it opened, the mobile home park at Schreiber Field in Galveston is still only half full.

A damaging wind storm, with a reported, but unconfirmed tornado, hit late Thursday afternoon near Provost, Alta.,approximately 290 kilometres southeast of Edmonton.