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Earl nears East Coast; island evacuations begin (9/1)

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Powerful Hurricane Earl spun toward the East Coast on Wednesday, driving tourists from North Carolina’s vacation islands and threatening to bring damaging winds and waves all along the Atlantic seaboard through Labor Day weekend. Visitors took ferries off of Ocracoke Island and were told to leave neighboring Cape Hatteras in North [...]

Tropical Storm Earl forms in Atlantic (8/25)

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Earl has formed in the open Atlantic Ocean, but the system is far from land. Earl has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and is expected to become a hurricane by Friday. In the Pacific, Hurricane Frank developed off Mexico’s coast. Frank has maximum sustained winds near 75 mph. The [...]

Colin weakens, but could grow again (8/5)

From AccuWeather.com:The remnants of Colin are located several hundred miles to the northeast of Puerto Rico and are tracking to the northwest at about 18 mph. This feature was starting to show better signs of organization today with a more well-defined low level circulation. A reconnaissance aircraft is investigating the area this afternoon.There have been [...]

Expect tropical system to dump more rain on Texas, Louisiana (7/7)

The following article has been posted on AccuWeather.com: A week after Hurricane Alex slammed onshore, a new tropical system that is being monitored for development will target South Texas and northeastern Mexico on Thursday. Despite tracking well away from the oil spill area, the system still threatens to disrupt cleanup and containment efforts in the [...]

System over Yucatan could become Tropical Storm Bonnie (7/6)

From AccuWeather.com:A storm system currently crossing the Yucatan Peninsula may develop into Tropical Storm Bonnie as soon as Wednesday across the western Gulf of Mexico. The storm could disrupt oil cleanup and containment efforts through the middle of the week before threatening Texas and Louisiana.Currently, the system is rather disorganized over the Yucatan Peninsula. Nonetheless, [...]

Remnants of Alex drench northern Mexico; 2 die (7/1)

By the ASSOCIATED PRESSMATAMOROS, Mexico — The sprawling remains of Hurricane Alex drenched much of northern Mexico on Thursday, paralyzing the major city of Monterrey. At least two people were killed when dry rivers roared to life and highways turned into rushing streams.Hurricane Alex ripped off roofs, caused severe flooding and forced thousands of people [...]

Alex comes ashore as Category 2 storm (6/30)

By the ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FERNANDO, Mexico — Hurricane Alex crashed into Mexico’s Gulf coast as a powerful Category 2 storm Wednesday evening, spawning tornadoes in nearby Texas, forcing evacuations in both countries and whipping up high waves that frustrated oil-spill cleanup efforts and pushed crude onto beaches. Alex made landfall at a relatively unpopulated [...]

Hurricane Alex on the approach (6/30)

By the ASSOCIATED PRESS MATAMOROS, Mexico — The first Atlantic hurricane of the year plowed ahead toward a collision with the Mexican Gulf coast and south Texas on Wednesday, whipping up high waves that frustrated oil-spill cleanup efforts and delivering tar balls and globs of crude onto already soiled beaches. Hurricane Alex flooded roads and [...]

Alex forces evacuation of oil rigs, platforms (6/29)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal agency that regulates offshore oil and gas says operators in the Gulf of Mexico are evacuating platforms and rigs in the path of Tropical Storm Alex. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement estimates that this has halted nearly one-quarter of the Gulf’s oil production and more [...]