By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Friday is the statistical peak of hurricane season, yet a monster named Larry is forecast to transform into a winter storm that will deliver feet of snow in Greenland. Yes, you read that correctly. A hurricane producing feet of snow. It’s been a crazy year for tropical systems already, so
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. Past coverage of the 2020 and 2019 hurricane season and the latest weather news can also be found on CNN. Follow the storm tracker for the path and forecasts of the latest storm. Facts The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season runs from June
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By Brandon Miller, CNN Meteorologist The summer of 2021, which produced numerous extreme weather and climate disasters, was also the hottest on record in the US and tied with the Dust Bowl summer of 1936, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The average temperature from meteorological summer — June, July and August —
Continue ReadingBy John Keefe, Angela Fritz and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The Western US experienced extreme drought this year that severely strained water resources and primed the landscape for perilous wildfires. In California, this summer’s drought was the most extreme in the state’s entire 126-year record, with July 2021 as the driest month ever since data gathering
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By Jason Hanna, CNN Tropical Depression Mindy was dropping heavy rain on southern Georgia and parts of South Carolina on Thursday morning and could produce scattered flash flooding and a few tornadoes as it pushes to the coast, forecasters said. Mindy, which formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday afternoon and made landfall over
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, CNN Tropical Depression Mindy was dropping heavy rain on southern Georgia and parts of South Carolina on Thursday morning and could produce scattered flash flooding and a few tornadoes as it pushes to the coast, forecasters said. Mindy, which formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday afternoon and made landfall over
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By Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist The first storms since Ida will move through the Northeast into Thursday, bringing the chance for severe weather and possible flash flooding. Flood watches have been issued for over 12 million people just west of New York City, in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York state. A flood watch means
Continue Reading By Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist The first storms since Ida will move through the Northeast into Thursday, bringing the chance for severe weather and possible flash flooding. Flood watches have been issued for over 12 million people just west of New York City, in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York state. A flood watch means
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN California could be dealing with massive wildfires until the end of the year, a top fire official said, warning people to keep their guard up. “This season is far from over,” Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter cautioned Tuesday. “We are on par with where we were last year. That’s sobering and
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN California could be dealing with massive wildfires until the end of the year, a top fire official said, warning people to keep their guard up. “This season is far from over,” Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter cautioned Tuesday. “We are on par with where we were last year. That’s sobering and
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Some areas of the Northeast hit last week by the immense rains of the remnants of Hurricane Ida will be under a flash flood watch Wednesday. Thunderstorms capable of producing heavy rain are forecast to move into the region Wednesday evening. They could potentially dump 1-2″ of rain, according to the
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By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist Hurricane Larry may be well out in the Atlantic, but the dangerous Category 3 hurricane will have impacts in the US later this week that will be felt up and down much of the Eastern Seaboard. “Larry will remain a forceful hurricane that continues to produce significant swells with far-reaching
Continue ReadingBy Kelly McCleary and Alta Spells, CNN The Dixie Fire in northern California is on its way to becoming the largest wildfire in the state’s history, officials say. It has burned 917,579 acres and was only 59% contained as of Tuesday. Currently, the largest fire by acreage for the state is the August Complex, which
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By Madeline Holcombe, Eric Levenson and Jenn Selva, CNN About 14,000 people in one Louisiana parish are without homes after Hurricane Ida damaged or destroyed 75 percent of the structures there, Lafourche Parish President Archie Chaisson said Monday. “We are working feverishly, as hard as we can to get all people what they need to
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Gray and Haley Brink, CNN Meteorologists As meteorologists, we are still stunned by what happened in the Northeast last week. The flooding was forecast, but to see New York City underwater was not something anyone could have imagined. “As you see it unfold, you’re just gripped with this growing pit in your stomach
Continue ReadingBy Kelly McCleary and Alta Spells, CNN Firefighters in California made significant progress against the Caldor Fire over the weekend, allowing for some evacuation orders in the Lake Tahoe region to be downgraded. But as residents there began to breathe a sigh of relief, three new fires ignited in the state Sunday, according to Cal
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN Some of the areas in Louisiana that were hit hardest by Hurricane Ida could be looking at more than three weeks before power is restored, Entergy Louisiana said. They include the parishes of Lafourche, Plaquemines with the exception of Belle Chasse, St. Charles, Terrebonne and part of Jefferson, the utility company
Continue ReadingBy Monica Garrett, CNN meteorologist As millions pick up the pieces after Hurricane Ida ravaged the eastern United States from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast, meteorologists are keeping an eye on Hurricane Larry in the Atlantic. While Ida was generating its 1,500 mile long path of destruction, Tropical Storm Julian and Tropical Storm Kate
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna and Travis Caldwell, CNN As hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents struggle in sweltering conditions and without power six days after deadly Hurricane Ida struck, some are trying their luck elsewhere. New Orleans on Saturday started a shuttle program for electricity-deprived residents wanting to leave, sending them by charter bus from the
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN Crews continued their search Saturday for two missing childhood friends whom witnesses say were swept into a New Jersey storm drain when Hurricane Ida’s remnants soaked the Northeast with lethal floodwater that killed at least 50 people across the region. Nidhi Rana, 18, and Ayush Rana, 21, are among the six
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