*Charlotte has had 1.83" of rain making this the biggest rain event since August 2025 (8 months)* Keep the umbrella close by today as it's a soggy setup throughΒ mid afternoon. Rain chances stay high all day, and we could even mix in a few rumbles of thunder at times. With clouds locked in and rain-cooled air in place, temperatures wonβt move much, topping out in the low to mid 70s at best.
A powerful typhoon ripped through South Koreaβs southern and eastern coasts with tree-snapping winds and flooding rains Thursday, knocking out power to more than 270,000 homes and leaving at least one person dead.
Authorities have recovered the body of a 4-year-old boy who had been swept away in floodwaters in North Carolina.
Tropical Depression 15 formed off North Carolinaβs coast Monday but was not expected to approach land, the U.S National Hurricane Center said.
Six people were rescued in Salisbury after flood waters inundated an apartment complex.Β
From the air, the destruction of Hurricane Laura is especially stark. Photographs from The Associated Press show entire neighborhoods surrounded by green-brown floodwater. A glassy high-rise stands with most of its windows missing. An airport hangar is shredded into ribbons of metal.
Hurricane Laura pounded the Gulf Coast for hours with ferocious wind, torrential rains and rising seawater as it roared ashore over southwestern Louisiana near the Texas border early Thursday morning. A 14 year-old girl is the first reported fatality.
Latest information on Hurricane Laura.
Hurricane Laura is forecast to rapidly power up into a βcatastrophicβ Category 4 hurricane, even stronger than previously expected, as it churns toward Texas and Louisiana, swirling wind and water over much of the Gulf of Mexico.
