As youβre heading out the door this Tuesday morning, donβt be surprised if you run into a few scattered showers. The day is starting off with pockets of spotty rain across the area but not a total washout, but enough to make for a damp commute in some spots. Itβs going to be pretty hit-or-miss, so while one neighborhood deals with a quick shower, another may stay completely dry.
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.
The Gulf Coast braced Sunday for a potentially devastating hit from twin hurricanes as two dangerous storms swirled toward the U.S from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Officials feared a history-making onslaught of life-threatening winds and flooding along the coast, stretching from Texas to Alabama.
Two tropical storms advanced across the Caribbean Saturday as potentially historic threats to the U.S. Gulf Coast, one dumping rain on Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands while the other was pushing through the gap between Mexicoβs Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba.
A 2.0 magnitude earthquake was reported just before 8am in the town of Leslie, South Carolina, which is just east of Rock Hill.
Tropical Storm Laura formed Friday in the eastern Caribbean and forecasters said it poses a potential hurricane threat to Florida and the U.S. Gulf Coast. A second storm also may hit the U.S. after running into Mexicoβs Yucatan Peninsula.
Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet (1.25 meters) of water, a new study said.
California sizzled to a triple-digit temperature so hot that meteorologists need to verify it as a planet-wide high mark.
Specialists from the University of Memphis are traveling to North Carolina to monitor aftershocks of this past weekendβs 5.1 magnitude earthquake, the school said.
