By Kelly Gilblom, Peter Flanagan and Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) -- Category 2 Hurricane Ophelia is threatening everything from farms to a golf course owned by the family of U.S. President Donald Trump as it heads for Ireland. Ophelia’s top winds were 100 miles (155 kilometers) an hour by 3:40 p.m. London time on Friday, reaching the second level of the five-step … [Read more...]
Ophelia Becomes 10th Hurricane of 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Ophelia has become the 10th hurricane of the 2017 season as it continued to strengthen over the eastern Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday posing no threat to land, the National Hurricane Center said in an update today. The NHC upgraded Ophelia to a category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph as of its 5 p.m. ET update. Ophelia is centered over the far eastern … [Read more...]
Tropical Storm Nate Threatens Oil Rigs as It Targets U.S. Gulf Coast
By Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) -- Tropical Storm Nate has formed off of Nicaragua, threatening to inundate Central America, shut oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and damage cotton and citrus crops across the U.S. South. Nate was about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, with top winds of 40 miles per hour, the U.S. National … [Read more...]
Why Consumers Pay the Price for Hurricane Fuel Shortages
By Devika Krishna Kumar and Libby George NEW YORK, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Just days after Hurricane Harvey smacked Texas and hobbled a quarter of U.S. refining industry, the supply networks that fuel the nation's cars, trucks and airplanes began to fail. On paper, there was no fuel shortage. The United States had more than 200 million barrels of gasoline in giant steel … [Read more...]
NOAA’s New Weather Satellite Captured Stunning Images of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
The most-advanced weather satellite ever developed by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has given scientists and the general public an unprecedented birds-eye-view of the major hurricanes hitting the United States in recent weeks. Launched in November 2016, the GOES-16 is NOAA's next-generation weather satellite equipped with Advanced Baseline … [Read more...]
View: U.S. Should Prepare to Face More Hurricanes
By The Editors (Bloomberg View) -- Beyond inflicting epic destruction and suffering, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have brought the U.S. face to face with the catastrophic flood dangers posed by climate change. Fed by deeply warmed ocean waters, the storms turned violent -- as climate-change models have predicted. Higher sea levels have intensified flooding. Yet if history is a … [Read more...]
‘Potentially Catastrophic’ Irma Barrels Toward Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico
By Scott Malone SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Highly dangerous Category 5 Hurricane Irma rolled toward the Caribbean and southern United States, packing winds of 185 miles per hour (295 km per hour) on Tuesday, even as Texas and Louisiana still reeled from devastating Hurricane Harvey. Irma's eye was forecast to cross the northern Leeward Islands, east of … [Read more...]