“Winds, rain and waves are expected to pose a significant threat to most areas of Taiwan,” Deputy Director Fong Chin-tzu said, urging the public to remain vigilant. “It has gained some strength since yesterday,” he said, adding that the storm will move west toward the Taiwan Strait by Monday. Schools and businesses in the southern […]
“There is a considerable spread in model intensity guidance, ranging from minimal to major hurricane status prior to landfall on the northeastern Gulf Coast,” NHC said. The NHC predicted that Idalia would reach Florida by 7:00 a.m. (1100 GMT) on Wednesday, with an image showing the storm’s likely path. The NHC said that at 0300 […]
Although Bangladesh managed to avoid being hit by very severe cyclone Mocha, the storm wreaked havoc in the island of St. Martin. One of the country’s most visited tourist destinations, Saint Martin has a population of approximately 11,000. More than 2,000 houses and shops have been damaged due to the cyclone in this eight square […]
The Myanmar Red Cross Society said it was “preparing for a major emergency response”. In Bangladesh, authorities have banned Rohingya refugees from building concrete houses, fearing it could encourage them to settle permanently rather than return to Myanmar, which they fled five years ago following a brutal military crackdown. ran away after. The camps are […]
Chattogram, Feni, Noakhali, Laxmipur, Chandpur, Barishal, Bhola, Patuakhali, Jhalkathi, Pirojpur, Barguna and their offshore islands and the coastal districts of Char will come under the danger signal of major threat. 8. Under the peripheral effect of the very severe cyclone, low-lying areas in the coastal districts of Cox’s Bazar and Chattogram and their offshore islands […]
The wind speed increased to 190 km at the storm center
The depression over South East Bay and adjoining region has intensified into a deep depression, reported news agency UNB. The deep depression lay about 1550 km south of Chittagong port, 1470 km south of Cox’s Bazar port, 1550 km south-southeast of Mongla port and 1505 km south-southeast of Payra port, the special bulletin said. Was […]
A fierce US winter storm slammed into the northern Plains and upper Midwest on Thursday, killing one firefighter, knocking out power for more than 900,000 people and causing thousands of flights to be canceled or delayed. A wide area of the northern United States from Washington state to New England was under a winter weather […]
At a briefing Saturday, California Governor Gavin Newsom estimated that 22 to 25 trillion gallons of water had fallen over the past 16 to 17 days due to an unprecedented “pile of these atmospheric rivers.” Newsom urged residents to remain vigilant despite Sunday’s forecast for lower levels of rain, as even modest amounts of rain […]
US President Joe Biden on Saturday approved an emergency declaration for California as hurricanes have ravaged the Golden State since Dec. 26, killing at least 19 people and causing flooding, power outages, There have been mudslides, evacuations and road closures. The White House said in a statement that Biden ordered federal aid to supplement state, […]
An AFP journalist saw tractors fighting to pump floodwater back into the river in fields near Salinas. The newly falling rain was not helping the effort. And forecasters say the fluctuating weather in the US West—called an atmospheric river pattern—isn’t done. In the mountains, heavy snow was making travel dangerous or impossible on a three-day […]
“Since the mountains are right there, when it really rains, it comes down at a really high rate … It’s dangerous very quickly,” resident Daniel Demuir told AFP. “That’s the price of living in such a beautiful place, when it rains like this, there’s a lot of destruction.” Montecito, whose multimillion-dollar estate is surrounded by […]
