Just at summer’s end, an unusual winter storm began blasting parts of the West with up to 3 feet of snow, smashing records with low temperatures, heavy snow, strong winds and blizzard conditions. The National Weather Service called the storm historic, and said temperatures in some areas would drop as much as 30 degrees below normal. The weather service said, … Read More

Hurricane Lorenzo, thankfully churning away in the eastern Atlantic far from any shores, over the weekend still became historic. When Lorenzo for a brief stint became a Category 5 hurricane over the weekend, smashing a record for the easternmost Atlantic hurricane to attain such a strong intensity. Meteorologists have never recorded such a strong hurricane so far east in the Atlantic … Read More

Record-breaking rainfall from tropical storm Imelda was devastating to southeastern Texas. As areas were swamped with up to 4 feet of rain over just three days, causing catastrophic flooding that is among the worst in U.S. history. To put a storm like Imelda into perspective, storms that drop this much rain are estimated to appear once in a millennium, according … Read More

When Tropical Storm Imelda was devastating Southeast Texas last week, there were six named storms whirling at once in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which hit the record. The Weather Channel reported that while Humberto and Kiko were spinning in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific, then Imelda and Jerry formed in the Atlantic Basin, and Mario and Lorena in the … Read More

An earthquake has shaken northern Pakistan destroying buildings, cracking roads, and killing 22 people while injuring nearly 200 more, government and police officials said. Photos and video carried by local media showed dozens of collapsed buildings and homes, uprooted trees and cracks in roads large enough to swallow cars in Mirpur, a town on Pakistan’s side of the disputed territory … Read More

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Puerto Rico rousing and scaring many from their sleep in the US territory. The US Geological Survey said the quake struck 49 miles off the island’s northwest coast at a shallow depth of 6 miles. Three aftershocks, of magnitude 4.7 and 4.6, also hit within less than an hour in the same region at the … Read More

Tropical Storm Imelda was a slow motion catastrophe in southeast Texas that those affected are saying was as bad or worse as Hurricane Harvey which was a historic hurricane in the area. Buckets of rain poured down this week from Tuesday even until Friday with it reaching an apex on Thursday as the storm exploded ashore and dumped 4 feet … Read More