Zeta To Strengthen Into Hurricane Later On Monday Via Reuters: Tropical storm Zeta is strengthening rapidly and is forecast to become a hurricane later on Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Located about 210 miles (340 km) southeast of Cozumel, Mexico, with maximum sustained winds of 70 miles (110 km) per hour, Zeta will move near or over the northern Yucatan Peninsula later on Monday and over the […]
Winchester, VA - Accuweather and the Weather Channel are reporting that winter storm Grayson is wreaking havoc upon the east coast. Yesterday it brought ice, snow, and slush to Florida, even causing some water parks to shut down. Flights were canceled at Wilmington International, Savannah/Hilton Head, and Charleston International airports. Icy road conditions caused accidents along I-95 and I-16 in Georgia and power was knocked out to 22,000 Georgia Power customers, […]
Winchester, VA - CNN is reporting that heavy rains caused a landslide which devastated the remote village of Villa Santa Lucia in southern Chile on Saturday. Five people are dead, 8 injured, and another 15 are missing. One of the dead was confirmed to be a tourist but the individual's identity has not been released. Portions of the village were half-buried under mud. CNN also reports that Tropical Storm Urduja swept […]
Winchester, VA - Forbes reports that scientists are predicting an uptick in the amount of large earthquakes throughout the world during 2018. This is why: Earth's rotation follows a cyclical pattern, and slows down for a few milliseconds each day, then speeds up again. Scientists now believe that this slowdown in the earth's rotation is related to a cyclical increase in earthquakes. Upon analysis of every earthquake since 1900 of a […]
Winchester, VA - Hurricane Nate made landfall in southeastern Louisiana late Saturday night, and then again in Biloxi, Mississippi on early Sunday morning as a Category 1 hurricane. It was the first hurricane to make landfall in Mississippi since Katrina in 2005. The Associated Press reports that over 100,000 residents in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida lost power in the storm, however no storm deaths or injuries have been reported. There […]
Winchester, VA - Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico yesterday, having made landfall near Yabucoa at 6:15a.m. as a Category 4 hurricane. By 8:00 p.m. last night, Maria had weakened to a Category 2 hurricane, but once over the open waters, it restrengthened to a Category 3. Right now, Maria is a category 3 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 115mph, located at latitude 19.6 and longitude 68.4. It is moving […]
Winchester, VA - Florida is trying to pick up the pieces after Hurricane Irma swept through the state with a fury this past weekend. Some airports are open for business, and curfews are being lifted. Figures of how many are going without power abound, with the Weather Channel saying 60% of the state, and the Associated Press saying 9.5 million, or just under half of the state's population. Over 300 people […]
Winchester, VA - Tropical Storm Irma, which has left 6.9 million without power, tore through Georgia and South Carolina yesterday with storm surge, heavy rains, flash flooding, and tornadoes. It was the first time in history that Atlanta was under a tropical storm warning. Three Georgia residents and one South Carolinian were reported killed due to the monster storm, which left Florida around 5:30 yesterday evening with greatly diminished winds of […]
Winchester, VA - And now an update on Hurricane Irma. As of 8 A.M. Atlantic Standard Time this morning, Irma's maximum sustained windspeed had dropped slightly to 180 mph and the eye of the storm was moving west-northwestward off the northern coast of Hispaniola at 17 mph, headed for the Turk and Caicos Islands. It is still too early to tell where in Florida Irma might make landfall, but as of […]
