Tonight, we're looking at another quiet and comfortable evening across the area. Temperatures will gradually cool after another gorgeous afternoon in the 70s. If you've been loving this stretch of sunshine and warmer weather, the good news is that we have one more day to enjoy it before some big changes arrive.
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 “catastrophic” 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 nation’s 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.
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 Mexico’s 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.
