CNN — A powerful bomb cyclone slammed into the California coast Wednesday night, lashing the state with heavy downpours and hurricane-force winds as the storm advanced onshore, knocking over trees and killing a child. The low-pressure storm system moved in from the Pacific, bringing damaging winds, excessive rainfall and extremely …
Read More »Devastating disasters and flickers of hope: These are the top climate and weather stories of 2022
CNN — From a small island in Polynesia to the white-sand beaches of Florida, the planet experienced a dizzying number of climate and extreme weather disasters in 2022. Blistering summer heat broke records in drought-stricken China, threatening lives and food production. In the United States, drought and sea level rise …
Read More »Starving bees are robbing hives as their keepers try everything to save them
Arcadia, Florida CNN — Their busy, buzzing business partners pollinate everything from almonds in California to blueberries in Maine, so few people understand the state of American agriculture quite like Florida beekeepers. But colliding climate crises have left few as sad and worried. The storms and droughts of ’22 had …
Read More »Hurricane Nicole: Beachfront homes in small Florida community washed away
CNN — Trip Valigorsky’s beachfront home in a tight-knit community in Volusia County, Florida had been in his family for nearly 15 years before it was washed away this week, as the dangerous storm surge and powerful winds caused by Hurricane Nicole swept across Florida. “This home was my grandma’s …
Read More »Nicole becomes post-tropical cyclone, brings rain to Northeast after leaving a trail of destruction in Florida
CNN — After wreaking havoc in Florida, Nicole weakened into a post-tropical cyclone, bringing severe thunderstorms to the Carolinas and Virginia Friday before striking the Northeast. Nicole – the first hurricane to hit the US in the month of November in nearly 40 years – walloped coastal homes in Florida’s …
Read More »Hurricane Nicole: Florida picks up after storm kills at least 5 and leaves ‘unprecedented’ damage to Daytona-area coastline
CNN — As Nicole threatens the Carolinas and Virginia on Friday with tornadoes and flooding, Floridians – many still recovering from Hurricane Ian – are picking up the pieces after this week’s storm killed at least five people and ripped apart buildings with its dangerous storm surge and powerful winds. …
Read More »5 things to know for Nov. 10: Midterms, Tropical storm, Ukraine, Marijuana, Listeria
CNN — Election officials cautiously went into the midterms this week bracing for the possibility of harassment and hostility at some polling places. Luckily, voting went smoothly across the US – even after two years that election-deniers bragged that they would flood the polls with observers to find fraud. Here’s …
Read More »Nicole strikes Florida’s east coast as the first US hurricane in November in nearly 40 years
Editor’s Note: Affected by the storm? Use CNN’s lite site for low bandwidth. CNN — Nicole has weakened to tropical storm after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane along the east coast of Florida early Thursday morning, lashing the region with heavy rain and dangerous storm surge as it …
Read More »Subtropical Storm Nicole is on track to strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane as it approaches Florida
CNN — A powerful storm packing torrential rain and damaging winds could slam into Florida’s east coast as a Category 1 hurricane this week as many residents are still enduring the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. Subtropical Storm Nicole is expected to strengthen slowly as it approaches the Florida Peninsula, bringing …
Read More »Subtropical Storm Nicole: Florida residents still recovering from Hurricane Ian are being asked to prepare for a possible tropical system later in the week
CNN — Florida officials are warning residents, including those recently hit by the destructive Hurricane Ian, that a tropical system could bring heavy rain and damaging winds this week. The warning comes as Subtropical Storm Nicole has formed in the southwest Atlantic about 555 miles east of northwestern Bahamas, according …
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