Category: storm

Another Powerful ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Set to Hit California This Week

Another powerful winter storm system that is evolving into a “bomb cyclone” is set to hit California this week, bringing heavy rains, damaging winds, and snow to much of the state, according to experts. The latest storm is a “hybrid” of two storms that joined forces over the northeastern Pacific Ocean late on Sunday and began hitting…


LIVE NOW: Federal, State, and Local Officials Provide Update After a Powerful Storm Tore Across Mississippi

Federal, state, and local officials provide an update after a powerful storm tore across Mississippi overnight, killing at least 25 people there and one person in Alabama, leveling hundreds of buildings, and spawning at least one devastating tornado. …


Federal, State, and Local Officials Provide Update After a Powerful Storm Tore Across Mississippi

Federal, state, and local officials provide an update after a powerful storm tore across Mississippi overnight, killing at least 25 people there and one person in Alabama, leveling hundreds of buildings, and spawning at least one devastating tornado. …


2 Dead, Thousands Without Power as Another Storm Slams California

More than 112,000 customers remained without power in California the afternoon of March 22 after yet another intense storm slammed the state, bringing heavy rains and hurricane-force winds. Utility company Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) said the storm system “exceeded all expectations as the center of the low-pressure system tracked right through the Bay Area instead of glancing…


Floods Fill Some of California’s Summer Strawberry Fields

As river water gushed through a broken levee, thousands of people in a California farming town were forced to evacuate as their homes were flooded and businesses destroyed. Yet another potential casualty of the powerful rainstorms that drenched coastal California: hundreds of acres of fresh strawberries slated for America’s supermarket shelves this summer. Industry experts…


Northeast Digs Out From Winter Storm, Faces Power Outages

CONCORD, N.H.—Parts of New England and New York were digging out of a nor’easter Wednesday that caused tens of thousands of power outages, numerous school cancellations, and whiteout conditions on the roads. The storm began Monday night and lasted throughout Tuesday, dumping as much as 3 feet of snow and gusty winds. Others got just…


NTD Good Morning (Mar. 15): Pentagon Says Russian Jet Downed U.S. Drone; Moody’s Cuts Outlook on Entire U.S. Banking System

A Russian fighter jet collides with a U.S. military drone over the Black Sea. U.S. forces were forced to crash the drone into the waters. The two sides accuse each other of wrongdoing. A heavy snow storm across the northeastern U.S. causes power outages, dangerous driving conditions, flight cancellations, and school closures. Some areas have…


NTD Good Morning (March 15): Pentagon Says Russian Jet Downed US Drone; Moody Cuts Outlook on Entire US Banking System

A Russian fighter jet collided with a U.S. military drone over the Black Sea. U.S. forces were forced to crash the drone into the waters. The two sides accuse each other of wrongdoing. A heavy snowstorm across the northeastern United States causes power outages, dangerous driving conditions, flight cancellations, and school closures. Some areas have…


Northeast Winter Storm Shuts Schools, Knocks Out Power

The start of a winter storm with heavy, wet snow caused a plane to slide off the runway and led to hundreds of school closings, canceled flights and thousands of power outages in parts of the Northeast on Tuesday. The storm’s path included parts of New England, upstate New York, northeastern Pennsylvania, and northern New…


New England, Upstate New York, Bracing for Winter Storm

Parts of the Northeast were bracing for a powerful winter storm that could dump heavy, wet snow, and unleash strong winds, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people. The National Weather Service says the storm is expected to begin late Monday and last into Wednesday. The storm could hit parts of New England,…