Hurricane Irene has reached New York City and is expected to hang around here until the afternoon before heading north into New England. Though she's still causing flooding, power outages, and heavy winds, she's been downgraded to a tropical stormāraging at only 65 mph, instead of yesterday's hurricaney highs. As weā¦
Below is a video of WTTG's Tucker Barnes casually giving a live report on Hurricane Irene today from Ocean City, Maryland while drenched in what he described as "organic matter" that "doesn't taste great." I wonder why it didn't taste great?
If you don't live in New York City, you might be wondering what the place might look like and/or how it might change while being pummeled by a raging monster-cane. Thanks to a live-cam, you can find out ever so conveniently!
Sandbags, plywood, police tape, bottled water, and unbending courage: These are the survival tools of the disaster-prepared New Yorker. Check out our photo gallery to see how NYC has prepared itself for the soggy, windy Irene-ing to come.
As New York City braces for Irene's wrath, we remember one of the only recorded hurricanes to touch directly over modern Manhattan.
Did you hear? Hurricane Irene is going to slam into New York City like Lindsay Lohan slamming into the sidewalk in front of a nightclub. It's going to be horrible! But we're sure you can make it through if you prepare adequately. Here's how.
As we speak, Hurricane Irene (upgraded from "tropical storm" this morning and the first Atlantic hurricane of the season) is ravaging the Caribbean. So obviously, the next question on your mind must be, "But how are local celebrities doing?" The New York Post will have you know that Kate Winslet narrowly escaped aā¦
Phoenix, Arizona was enveloped by a giant dust storm on Thursday afternoon, marking the third time a haboob has hit the city in two months. The wall of dust caused the city's sky to turn brown, its power lines to fall down, and its transportation systems to slow to a halt. But it also made possible this amazingā¦
Have you seen the list of hurricane names that the National Hurricane Center is using this summer? They're pretty bad and not at all relevant to trends in baby naming or popular culture in general. What sort of names should we use instead?
The tornado-ravaged citizens of Cordova, Alabama ā about 35 miles northwest of Birmingham, pop. 2000 ā have lost everything after a series of monster twisters tore through their town on April 27th. With nowhere to turn, scores of newly homeless residents were relieved when FEMA came along with a caravan of single-wideā¦
At least three tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma on Tuesday, including one currently wreaking havoc in the Oklahoma City suburbs. According to local channel KFOR, at least two are dead and more injured, with heavy damage in the suburbs of El Reno, Goldsby and Piedmont.
The confirmed death toll from Sunday's devastating tornado in Joplin, Missouri, stands at 116 as of early Tuesday. The storm at times had winds of 190 to 198 miles per hour, officials told the AP, and was three-quaretrs of a mile wide. And, the same area of Missouri could get hit again later today:
This video of an Emirates flight getting hit by huge tendrils of lightning on its way in to land at Heathrow Airport was taken last month, so it's a bit too early to add to our list of this week's scary airplane "incidents." (Also, no one aboard was hurt, and the jet landed "with not even a scratch.") Even so, itā¦
It's been a rough 24 hours across the storm-ravaged South. Here's a roundup of the latest news.
A monstrous tornado nearly a mile wide killed fifteen people in Tuscaloosa, Ala. and "obliterated" parts of the city when it touched down on Wednesday afternoon. These videos should give you some sense of how terrifying a tornado can be.
Last week, a massive tornado ripped through Jackson, Mississippi. For victim Eric Hubbard, it wasn't the fact that the storm had put a tree through his living room or destroyed his car that pissed him offāit was the fact the tornado stole a hamburger right from his hands. [via Eater]
[Boats and yachts are piled together at Port Hinchinbrook, Australia, after Cyclone Yasi brought heavy rain and howling winds gusting to 186 mph. Image via AP]
Thundersnow is the term used to describe the simultaneous presence of thunder and snow (duh). Here, Weather Channel personality Jim Cantore, reporting from the streets in Chicago last night, gets startled by some thundersnow. His reaction is appropriately crazy.
Accuweather.com is already sounding the alarm about next week's "Groundhog Day Storm" that could affect "more than 100 million peopleā¦ from the Rockies to the Plains, South, Midwest and Northeast." Sounds scary! But not nearly as scary as their maps.
[Workers clear a platform at the Edison train station in New Jersey as snow falls during Wednesday night's snowstorm. Image via AP]
