Hurricane Beryl swept ashore as a Category 1 storm with heavy rains and powerful winds, and knocking out power to more than 1 million homes and businesses as fast-rising waters caused street flooding and prompted rescues.
Beryl made landfall near Matagorda, TX as a category 1 hurricane and is bringing life-threatening storm surge, damaging wind and flooding rain to SE Texas.
The newest and most advanced weather satellite, GOES-U, launched from NASAβs Kennedy Space Center last week. It is the 4th and final installment of the GOES-R series of geostationary weather satellites.
The plane crash killed 37 passengers after getting caught in a microburst, crashing just half a mile from the runway at Charlotte-Douglas airport on July 2, 1994.