Climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa's destructive winds and rain, analysis finds
Read full article: Climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa's destructive winds and rain, analysis findsAn analysis from World Weather Attribution reports human-caused climate change intensified the winds and rainfall unleashed by Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean.
Motorist 'deliberately' hit 5 people in car ramming on French Atlantic island
Read full article: Motorist 'deliberately' hit 5 people in car ramming on French Atlantic islandA driver has rammed his car into pedestrians and cyclists on the holiday island of Ile d’Oléron, off the west coast of France, leaving at least two people in a critical condition and three others injured.
Priscilla nears major hurricane status in Pacific as new tropical storm swirls in the Atlantic
Read full article: Priscilla nears major hurricane status in Pacific as new tropical storm swirls in the AtlanticThe U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Jerry has strengthened in the Atlantic Ocean on a path toward the Caribbean.
Excavators find $1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida's 'Treasure Coast'
Read full article: Excavators find $1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida's 'Treasure Coast'A team of excavators has found $1 million in treasure from a centuries-old Spanish shipwreck off a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast.”.
Tropical weather in the Atlantic is slamming the Caribbean and may strike Southeast US next
Read full article: Tropical weather in the Atlantic is slamming the Caribbean and may strike Southeast US nextCrews have been preparing for a weather system forecast to hit South Carolina as a hurricane early next week.
Rainy pattern to linger through midweek before weekend sunshine returns in Metro Detroit
Read full article: Rainy pattern to linger through midweek before weekend sunshine returns in Metro DetroitMetro Detroit begins the week and the start of fall on a soggy note, as showers and thunderstorms return to the area.
Hurricane Erin churns up dangerous waves and closes beaches along US East Coast
Read full article: Hurricane Erin churns up dangerous waves and closes beaches along US East CoastHurricane Erin is churning slowly toward the eastern U.S. coast and stirring up waves that already have forced dozens of beach rescues.
Category 4 Hurricane Erin buffets northern Caribbean islands but not forecast to hit land
Read full article: Category 4 Hurricane Erin buffets northern Caribbean islands but not forecast to hit landForecasters say Erin has exploded into a major hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean just north of the Caribbean.
Tropical Storm Andrea, first of Atlantic hurricane season, is quickly weakening
Read full article: Tropical Storm Andrea, first of Atlantic hurricane season, is quickly weakeningThe National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Andrea is expected to weaken quickly and become a post-tropical low soon.
Get ready for another busy Atlantic hurricane season, but maybe not as crazy as 2024
Read full article: Get ready for another busy Atlantic hurricane season, but maybe not as crazy as 2024With warmer-than-normal ocean waters, forecasters are expecting another unusually busy hurricane season for the Atlantic.
13 Michigan counties get over $1 million in grants to protect fish habitats
Read full article: 13 Michigan counties get over $1 million in grants to protect fish habitatsThirteen Michigan counties, including Macomb and Oakland, received grant funding for projects on lakes and streams that will help benefit fish and aquatic systems.
Microsoft pledges to protect European operations and unveils data center expansion
Read full article: Microsoft pledges to protect European operations and unveils data center expansionMicrosoft has pledged to fight any U.S. government order to halt data center operations in Europe, as it sought to soothe concerns among European customers that trans-Atlantic tensions would lead to service disruptions.
WMO retires 4 from rotating list of hurricane names after 2024 season
Read full article: WMO retires 4 from rotating list of hurricane names after 2024 seasonFour names have been retired from the rotating list of hurricane names used by the World Meteorological Organization due to the damage they caused
Atmospheric river and potential bomb cyclone will bring messy, dangerous weather to East Coast
Read full article: Atmospheric river and potential bomb cyclone will bring messy, dangerous weather to East CoastThe East Coast is due for a whiplash-inducing rainy, windy and potentially dangerous stretch of weather.
Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end, leaving widespread damage in its wake
Read full article: Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end, leaving widespread damage in its wakeThe 2024 Atlantic hurricane season comes to a close Saturday, bringing an end to a season that saw 11 hurricanes compared to the average seven, billions of dollars in damage and deaths and destruction hundreds of miles from where storms came ashore on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Severe storm watches issued for Jamaica and Caymans, Patty becomes a tropical storm near Azores
Read full article: Severe storm watches issued for Jamaica and Caymans, Patty becomes a tropical storm near AzoresA hurricane watch for the Cayman Islands and a tropical storm warning for Jamaica have been issued as a weather system in the Caribbean is expected to strengthen.
An unusual hurricane season goes from ultra quiet to record busy and spawns Helene and Milton
Read full article: An unusual hurricane season goes from ultra quiet to record busy and spawns Helene and MiltonExplosively intensifying Hurricane Milton is the latest freaky system to come out of what veteran hurricane scientists call the weirdest storm season of their lives.
Wind, rain but no name as tropical disturbance approaches Carolinas coast
Read full article: Wind, rain but no name as tropical disturbance approaches Carolinas coastHeavy winds and rains from a storm in the Atlantic that wasn’t quite organized enough to get a name hit a stretch of the southeastern U.S. coast.
Forecasters still predict highly active Atlantic hurricane season in mid-season update
Read full article: Forecasters still predict highly active Atlantic hurricane season in mid-season updateFederal forecasters are still predicting a highly active Atlantic hurricane season thanks to near-record sea surface temperatures and the possibility of La Nina.
Here’s when storm chances return to Metro Detroit
Read full article: Here’s when storm chances return to Metro DetroitThe sunshine will continue for the end of the weekend on Sunday, but with a southerly flow starting to kick in, we will bring in a little more humidity as we work throughout the afternoon.
How the hot water that fueled Hurricane Beryl foretells a scary storm season
Read full article: How the hot water that fueled Hurricane Beryl foretells a scary storm seasonHurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead.
Animal rescuers try to keep dozens of dolphins away from Cape Cod shallows after mass stranding
Read full article: Animal rescuers try to keep dozens of dolphins away from Cape Cod shallows after mass strandingAnimal rescuers were trying to keep dozens of dolphins away from shallow waters around Cape Cod after 125 of the creatures earlier stranded themselves.
Beryl strengthens into hurricane in Atlantic, forecast to grow into major storm entering Caribbean
Read full article: Beryl strengthens into hurricane in Atlantic, forecast to grow into major storm entering CaribbeanBeryl has grown into a hurricane in the Atlantic and is forecast to strengthen into a major storm as it nears the Caribbean.
Bird flu is highly lethal to some animals, but not to others. Scientists want to know why
Read full article: Bird flu is highly lethal to some animals, but not to others. Scientists want to know whyScientists are trying to determine why bird flu kills some animals quickly but leads to mild illnesses in others.
Stock market today: Wall Street hangs around its records after European stocks slump
Read full article: Stock market today: Wall Street hangs around its records after European stocks slumpU.S. stocks hung around their record levels as Wall Street remained relatively quiet following another slide in Europe.
The UN says more aquatic animals were farmed than fished in 2022. That's the first time in history
Read full article: The UN says more aquatic animals were farmed than fished in 2022. That's the first time in historyThe total global volume of fish, shrimp, clams and other aquatic animals that are harvested by farming has topped the amount fished in the wild from the world’s waters for the first time ever.
Dangerous brew: Ocean heat and La Nina combo likely mean more Atlantic hurricanes this summer
Read full article: Dangerous brew: Ocean heat and La Nina combo likely mean more Atlantic hurricanes this summerGet ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record thanks to unprecedented ocean heat and a brewing La Nina.
Experts say coral reef bleaching near record level globally because of 'crazy' ocean heat
Read full article: Experts say coral reef bleaching near record level globally because of 'crazy' ocean heatScientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history.
4 people die on Spain's coastlines after falling into sea during high winds
Read full article: 4 people die on Spain's coastlines after falling into sea during high windsEmergency services in Spain say four people have died in three separate incidents on Spain’s Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines after falling into the sea.
Hurricanes are now twice as likely to zip from minor to whopper than decades ago, study says
Read full article: Hurricanes are now twice as likely to zip from minor to whopper than decades ago, study saysA study says Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy minor hurricanes to powerful and catastrophic in just 24 hours.
Tropical Storm Philippe chugs toward Bermuda on a path to Atlantic Canada and New England
Read full article: Tropical Storm Philippe chugs toward Bermuda on a path to Atlantic Canada and New EnglandTropical Storm Philippe is aiming for Bermuda on a path that would eventually take it to Atlantic Canada and eastern New England.
Tropical Storm Philippe soaks northeast Caribbean on a path toward Bermuda, New England and Canada
Read full article: Tropical Storm Philippe soaks northeast Caribbean on a path toward Bermuda, New England and CanadaTropical Storm Philippe is drenching the U.S. and British Virgin Islands as it spins away from the northeast Caribbean on a path that would take it toward Bermuda and later New England and Atlantic Canada.
Tropical Storm Philippe makes landfall in Barbuda as heavy rains drench northeast Caribbean
Read full article: Tropical Storm Philippe makes landfall in Barbuda as heavy rains drench northeast CaribbeanTropical Storm Philippe has made landfall in the tiny island of Barbuda as it unleashes heavy rains and flash floods in the northeast Caribbean.
Atlantic nations commit to environmental, economic cooperation on sidelines of UN meeting
Read full article: Atlantic nations commit to environmental, economic cooperation on sidelines of UN meetingMore than 30 Atlantic countries on four continents have committed to bolster coordination on economic development, environmental protection, maritime issues and more.
Tropical Storm Lee strengthens into a hurricane as it churns across Atlantic toward Caribbean
Read full article: Tropical Storm Lee strengthens into a hurricane as it churns across Atlantic toward CaribbeanTropical Storm Lee has strengthened into a hurricane as it churns through the open waters of the Atlantic on a path that would take it near the northeast Caribbean.
NOAA doubles the chances for a nasty Atlantic hurricane season due to hot ocean, tardy El Nino
Read full article: NOAA doubles the chances for a nasty Atlantic hurricane season due to hot ocean, tardy El NinoFederal forecasters are doubling chances of a nasty Atlantic hurricane season this summer and fall.
Here comes El Nino: It's early, likely to be big, sloppy and add even more heat to a warming world
Read full article: Here comes El Nino: It's early, likely to be big, sloppy and add even more heat to a warming worldAfter months of gradually warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, NOAA officially issued an El Nino advisory Thursday and stated that this one might be different than the others.
How busy will Atlantic hurricane season be? Depends on who wins unusual battle of climatic titans
Read full article: How busy will Atlantic hurricane season be? Depends on who wins unusual battle of climatic titansTwo clashing climatic behemoths, one natural and one with human fingerprints, will square off this summer to determine how quiet or chaotic the Atlantic hurricane season will be.
Fiona, Ian retired from list of tropical cyclone names
Read full article: Fiona, Ian retired from list of tropical cyclone namesWeather officials say they’re retiring the names Fiona and Ian from the rotating list of Atlantic tropical cyclone names because of the death and destruction caused by the most recent storms with those names.
Atlantic hurricane season ends with averge number of storms
Read full article: Atlantic hurricane season ends with averge number of stormsAn Atlantic hurricane season with 14 named storms has ended, leaving residents in the Florida Keys to celebrate even though others around Florida and Puerto Rico continue to deal with the damage caused by Hurricanes Ian, Nicole and Fiona.
Hurricane Ian gets nasty quickly, turbocharged by warm water
Read full article: Hurricane Ian gets nasty quickly, turbocharged by warm waterHurricane Ian is quickly gaining monstrous strength as it moves over oceans partly heated up by climate change, just like 30 other Atlantic tropical storms since 2017 that became much more powerful in less than a day.
Florida evacuation list for Hurricane Ian: Tracking orders by county, find your zone
Read full article: Florida evacuation list for Hurricane Ian: Tracking orders by county, find your zoneThe best way to be prepared for a hurricane storm surge is to know your evacuation zone and plan your destination and travel routes ahead of time.
Florida evacuation orders for Hurricane Ian: Track by county, how to find your zone
Read full article: Florida evacuation orders for Hurricane Ian: Track by county, how to find your zoneWe’re tracking live updates on Hurricane Ian as it nears Cuba and eventually Florida this week in the Atlantic. Here’s how to find your evacuation zone, as counties begin to issue orders.
Florida evacuation zones for Hurricane Ian: How to find your zone by county
Read full article: Florida evacuation zones for Hurricane Ian: How to find your zone by countyWe’re tracking live updates on Hurricane Ian as it nears Cuba and eventually Florida this week in the Atlantic. Here’s how to find your evacuation zone, in the case of an evacuation order.
World leaders at France summit mull ways to protect oceans
Read full article: World leaders at France summit mull ways to protect oceansWorld leaders are trying to save the planet’s oceans in talks on France’s Atlantic coast aimed at fighting overfishing and plastic pollution, and finding fairer ways to manage the seas.
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La Palma: Hundreds more evacuate to flee volcano lava
Read full article: La Palma: Hundreds more evacuate to flee volcano lavaHundreds of people were evacuated during the night on the Spanish island of La Palma as a river of molten rock creeps deeper into a coastal town during a protracted volcanic eruption.
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August proves deadliest month for migrants braving Atlantic
Read full article: August proves deadliest month for migrants braving AtlanticThe International Organization for Migration says migrant deaths along the Atlantic route from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands reached a record high last month with 379 lives lost at sea.
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Elsa strengthens into season’s 1st hurricane in Caribbean
Read full article: Elsa strengthens into season’s 1st hurricane in CaribbeanElsa has strengthened into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season and it's blowing off roofs, snapping trees and destroying crops in the eastern Caribbean, where officials closed schools, businesses and airports under the threat of flash flooding and landslides.
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Airbus-Boeing deal eases US-EU tensions but conflicts remain
Read full article: Airbus-Boeing deal eases US-EU tensions but conflicts remainThe deal the United States and the European Union reached Tuesday to end their long-running rift over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus will suspend billions in punitive tariffs.
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As Russia tensions simmer, NATO conducts massive war games
Read full article: As Russia tensions simmer, NATO conducts massive war gamesThousands of NATO troops, several warships and dozens of aircraft are taking part in military exercises stretching across the Atlantic and into the Black Sea region as tensions with Russia simmer.
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Forecast: 40% chance Earth to be hotter than Paris goal soon
Read full article: Forecast: 40% chance Earth to be hotter than Paris goal soonA new world weather agency forecast says it'll likely be so hot in the next five years that there's a 40% chance the globe will push past the temperature limit set by the Paris climate agreement.
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General: China's Africa outreach poses threat from Atlantic
Read full article: General: China's Africa outreach poses threat from AtlanticThe top U.S. general for Africa says a growing military threat from China may well come from America’s east, as Beijing looks to establish a large navy port capable of hosting submarines or aircraft carriers on the Atlantic coast of Africa.
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Metro Detroit weather: Still dealing with more raindrops
Read full article: Metro Detroit weather: Still dealing with more raindropsThe anticipated deep upper level low pressure area did exactly what it was expected to do, and currently sits right on the state line. This is bringing in a feed of moisture all the way from the Atlantic, which will manifest itself in the form of showers throughout the day (while a steady rain is falling across most of Sanilac County early this morning, even that should transition to showers). It won’t rain continuously today, but the potential is there all day long across southeast Michigan. And by the way, since that upper low is south of most of us, the rain will be coming in from the east!
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Bye Alpha, Eta: Greek alphabet ditched for hurricane names
Read full article: Bye Alpha, Eta: Greek alphabet ditched for hurricane names(NOAA via AP)With named storms coming earlier and more often in warmer waters, the Atlantic hurricane season is going through some changes with meteorologists ditching the Greek alphabet during busy years. The Greek alphabet had only been used twice in 2005 and nine times last year in a record-shattering hurricane season. AdMeanwhile, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is recalculating just what constitutes an average hurricane season. STARTING EARLIERMIT hurricane researcher Kerry Emanuel said “this whole idea of hurricane season should be revisited." So a warming world means the new normal is busy hurricane seasons just like the last 30 years.
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EU, US agree to suspend tariffs over Airbus-Boeing dispute
Read full article: EU, US agree to suspend tariffs over Airbus-Boeing disputeFILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021 file photo, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a media conference in Brussels. After U.S. President Joe Biden and EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen spoke, both sides decided to suspend tariffs used in the longstanding Airbus-Boeing dispute for the next four months. Von der Leyen called it “a very positive signal for our economic cooperation in the years to come.”Ad"This is excellent news for businesses and industries on both sides of the Atlantic,” she said. In the aircraft dispute, the U.S. was allowed to impose tariffs on $7.5 billion of EU exports to the U.S and as a result of the deal, EU tariffs will be suspended on $4 billion of U.S. exports. The move came only a few weeks after international arbitrators gave the EU the green light for such punitive action.
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Tropical cyclones are nearing land more, except in Atlantic
Read full article: Tropical cyclones are nearing land more, except in AtlanticA study released on Thursday, Jan, 28, 2021, finds that tropical cyclones around the globe are getting closer to land than they used to, except for Atlantic hurricanes. (NASA/NOAA via AP)Tropical cyclones across the globe, except Atlantic hurricanes, are moving closer to land in recent decades, a new study found. Also called typhoons, tropical cyclones generally have been moving westward by about 18 miles per decade (30 kilometers) since 1982, putting them closer to land and making them more dangerous, a study in Thursday’s journal Science said. Storms that form just west of land, such as in the Pacific off the California and Mexican coasts, are usually moving away from land already, so this shift doesn’t spare more land. All these strange shifts are taking cyclones out of their preferred environment of warm tropical waters away from land, University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy said.
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EU invites Biden to usher in new era for trans-Atlantic ties
Read full article: EU invites Biden to usher in new era for trans-Atlantic tiesGerman Foreign Minister Heiko Maas speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU Foreign Ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday Dec. 7, 2020. European Union foreign ministers were meeting to discuss making a fresh start to relations with the United States under President-elect Joe Biden, the fallout from weekend elections in Venezuela and tense ties with Turkey. At talks in Brussels, EU foreign ministers said that Europe’s shared interests and historic ties with America make up “the world’s foremost and closest relationship,” and are a solid foundation for cooperating on economic, foreign policy and human rights challenges. “A strong trans-Atlantic partnership is vital to ensure and to contribute to our common security, stability and prosperity,” the ministers said in a statement. There is no replacement for trans-Atlantic relations,” Linkevicius said.
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30 named storms: Record hurricane season comes to a close
Read full article: 30 named storms: Record hurricane season comes to a closeMONTGOMERY, Ala. – A record-setting Atlantic hurricane season that saw the highest number of named storms officially came to a close Monday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season set multiple records while producing a record 30 named storms. NOAA said an average season has 12 named storms, six hurricanes and three become major hurricanes. The prior record for named storms hitting Louisiana in a single hurricane season is 4 set in 2002,” Klotzbach said. NOAA said this was the fifth consecutive year with an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season, with 18 above-normal seasons out of the past 26.
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EU invites Biden to patch up trans-Atlantic ties
Read full article: EU invites Biden to patch up trans-Atlantic tiesBRUSSELS – European Union chief Charles Michel is inviting Joe Biden once he is U.S. president to come visit and patch up trans-Atlantic relations that have suffered over the past four years under President Donald Trump. “The EU and the U.S. will always have more impact when taking steps together,” Michel said. The 27-nation bloc has often complained about a worsening relationship under Trump, and hope that with Biden, trans-Atlantic ties can be rekindled like they were under President Barack Obama. Over the past years, both sides disagreed over key topics from trade and security to the fight against climate change. Now, Michel said Biden should come over next year for a meeting with EU leaders.
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Biden's beach hideaway has political sun shining on Rehoboth
Read full article: Biden's beach hideaway has political sun shining on RehobothPeople enjoy the boardwalk, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in Rehoboth Beach, Del. This resort town known for Atlantic waves that are sometimes surfable, fresh-cut French fries and a 1-mile wooden boardwalk that dates back to the 1870s has long prided itself on being the Nation's Summer Capital. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Hurricane Iota heads for already battered Central America
Read full article: Hurricane Iota heads for already battered Central AmericaIota became a Category 2 hurricane late Sunday afternoon, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center warned it would likely be an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm when it approached the Central America mainland late Monday. It was already a record-breaking system, being the 30th named storm of this year’s extraordinarily busy Atlantic hurricane season. It hit Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane, killing at least 120 people as torrential rains caused flash floods and mudslides in parts of Central America and Mexico. Eta was the 28th named storm of this year’s hurricane season, tying the 2005 record for named storms. The official end of hurricane season is Nov. 30.
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Spain searches for answer to migrants eyeing Canary Islands
Read full article: Spain searches for answer to migrants eyeing Canary IslandsMADRID – Spain’s government is stepping up its response to a surge in the number of migrants crossing the Atlantic from Africa to the Canary Islands, though there was little new in the measures announced Friday. More than 16,000 migrants have arrived in the Spanish islands off northwest Africa this year, hoping to ensure a better life on European soil. In the whole of last year, around 1,500 arrived in the archipelago better known as a European vacation destination. The Spanish foreign ministry, meanwhile, is to spend an additional 500 million euros ($590 million) on cooperation programs with those countries. The new migrant focus on the perilous Canary Islands route, first seen in 2006, has come as authorities crack down on previously popular passages across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to European Union countries.
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