Thursday once again high pressure will keep the sunshine going and above average temperatures. Afternoon highs will climb into the upper 80s to near 90°, with record highs likely by late afternoon.
Utility crews are mobilizing as the eastern edge of Hurricane Isaias threatens to bring power outages, heavy rain, and strong wind gusts to the NC mountains and SC Upstate this weekend.
Isaias has strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane as it surges toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center reports that the storm's maximum sustained winds increased to 100 mph on Thursday.
Forecasters say Tropical Storm Isaias is gaining strength off eastern Mexico and should become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before it strikes the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week. The storm is on track to tie or break a 121-year-old record as the latest first Atlantic hurricane of the season.
After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve.
After a week of fierce competition, Bear 910 and Backpack have emerged as finalists for the Fat Bear Week title of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. But there can only be one winner of Fat Bear Week and it’s up to the voters to decide Tuesday.
A powerful, slow-moving nor’easter continued to batter the Northeast on Sunday, leaving more than 130,000 customers without power and threatening coastal communities with another round of flooding at high tide. The storm remained just south of Long Island and east of northern New Jersey and was expected to linger in the region for about another day.
After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around. Online voting began Tuesday for Fat Bear Week, the annual contest that pits the rotund residents of Katmai National Park and Preserve against each other for the title of most oversized ursine.
Local governments, tribes, and volunteer fire departments hit by Hurricane Helene can apply for a new round of state-funded grants to repair damaged infrastructure.
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