Hurricane Paloma Makes Landfall in Cuba as Category 3

Reports vary on the strength of Paloma when it made landfall, the Hurricane Center say it made landfall as a cat 3."AT APPROXIMATELY 620 PM EST...2320 UTC...HIGH-RESOLUTION GOES SATELLITE DATA AND A RECENT POSITION...

Hurricane Omar weakens to a tropical storm

UPDATE: 2:53PM PST - Saturday October 18Omar is now a Tropical Storm again and poses no more threat to any land." Omar lost hurricane strength on Friday, weakening to a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean and posing...

Mexico: Hurricane Norbert on the West, Tropical Storm Marco on the East

Update 10/07/08 12.25 GMT : Norbert is now a hurricane and could get closer to land later in the week. Further south on the Gulf side of Mexico Tropical Depression 13 has become Tropical Storm Marco, . "Two Storms...

Marie weakens into a tropical storm

Maire has weakened into a tropical storm off Mexico's Pacific coast."The Miami-based centre says Marie has maximum sustained winds of 100 kilometres an hour.The storm is barely moving northwest, centred 1,370 kilometres off the southern tip of Baja California.Marie was the...

Evacuate the Coasts - For Good

    Before humans arrived on the scene nearly 100,000 years ago, the earth experienced climatic changes at somewhat regular intervals.  Ice sheets expanded and melted, droughts and floods ravaged...

Tropical storm 'Pablo' threatens Philippines

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) today raised signal no. 1 in the islands of samar and Leyte on eastern Visayas due to the impending bad weather brought about...

Tropical Storm Kyle forms south of Bermuda

Tropical Storm Kyle is the 11th storm to form in the Atlantic so far this season. It has formed south of Bermuda.  "The storm formed Thursday and has maximum sustained winds near 45 mph.It's centered centered...

Florida homes evacuated in wake of Fay

Tropical Storm Fay is still causing problems in Florida, where residents have begun to receive evacuation orders. The City of Debary ordered the evacuation of at least 180 homes this afternoon, according to local...

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Tropical Storm EDOUARD Heading This Way

Kinda unsettling when all of a sudden the local newspaper sends a flash email to subscribers at 11:17 P.M CDT that a meek tropical storm (39-73 mph) has turned into a hurricane watch here along the coast, nearly 400...

Over 270,000 Evacuated as Severe Tropical Storm Fung-wong Hits China

Update #5: July 29th 0330UTC (11.30am Taiwan/China time)Severe tropical storm Fung-wong slammed into China's Fujian province late last night just south of Fuzhou. Packing sustained winds of 55 knots, gusting up to 75...

Tropical Storm Dolly Heavy Rains in South Texas "Tornadoes Possible"

For the latest ongoing NowPublic coverage please use this link. Dolly has weakened and is now a tropical storm. Heavy rain is falling in southern Texas and there are still fears of flooding. There is the possibility...

Tropical Storm Cristobal Forms off South Carolina Coast

Tropical Storm Cristobal is the 3rd Atlantic tropical storm this season.Updated 07/20/08: The latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center states that the storm is still moving northeastward and is hugging the...

Storm fears force Shell to evacuate Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico produces about one-third of US oil supplies. It has yet to fully recover from Katrina. In the fragile world economy, the impact of storms that shut down oil production could be significant."Shell...

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