Powerful storm lashes Japan, snarls holiday travel

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 05:56:33 +0000

In this Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, photo, high waves hit a fishing port in Kochi, southwestern Japan as a powerful typhoon Krosa approaches southern and western Japan. (Suo Takekuma/Kyodo News via AP)

TOKYO, Japan — A powerful tropical storm lashed Japan on Thursday, bringing strong winds and torrential rain that injured at least 14 people, prompted warnings of landslides and flooding, and sparked evacuation advisories and travel chaos at a peak holiday period. Severe Tropical Storm Krosa — one notch below a typhoon — was churning slowly […]

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Barry crawls ashore in Louisiana, weakens to tropical storm

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 22:59:27 +0000

Barry crawls ashore in Louisiana, weakens to tropical storm

NEW ORLEANS – “Barry” rolled into the Louisiana coast Saturday, flooding highways, forcing people to scramble to rooftops and dumping heavy rain that could test the levees and pumps that were bolstered after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005.

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‘It’s powerful’: Tropical storm starts lashing Louisiana

Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 00:26:51 +0000

'It's powerful': Tropical storm starts lashing Louisiana

Homeowners sandbagged their doors and tourists trying to get out of town jammed the airport Friday as Tropical Storm Barry began rolling in, threatening an epic drenching that could test how well New Orleans has strengthened its flood protections in the 14 years since Hurricane Katrina.

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‘Domeng’ intensifies as it moves out of PH

Tropical Storm “Domeng” continues to intensify as it moves north-east of the country, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said in its latest weather bulletin on Saturday. According to Pagasa, Domeng now has maximum sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour (kph) near the center and gustiness of up to 105 kph.

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