*Increased Fire Danger* This morning starts off mild and comfortable, with temperatures in the 50s and 60s under clearΒ skies. As we head throughΒ the day, temperatures warm into the mid 80s with plenty of sunshine and dry air in place. Itβs just an all-around nice spring day.
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.
As North Carolina saw a significant jump at the pump making the nationβs top 10 largest weekly changes, South Carolina continues to be a part of the top 10 least expensive markets.
Laura became a hurricane Tuesday shortly after entering the warm and deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, gathering strength on a path to hit the U.S. coastline as a major storm that could unleash a surge of seawater higher than a basketball hoop and swamp entire towns.
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