KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 28, 2025 (ENS) – The eye of the “extremely dangerous” Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is approaching western Jamaica at this moment, menacing the Caribbean island nation with catastrophic winds, flash flooding, and storm surge, warn the Meteorological Service of Jamaica and the U.S. National Hurricane Center. […]
BUCKS, Alabama, February 6, 2022 (ENS) – A new digital mapping tool shows that a Category 2 hurricane, packing winds up to 110 mph, could create a storm surge that sweeps more than 21 million tons of toxic coal ash from a power plant into the Mobile River, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico. […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, October 28, 2020 (ENS) – Hurricane Zeta has just made landfall as a 110 mile per hour, Category 2 hurricane near Cocodrie, Louisiana, a fishing, shrimping and crabbing village in Terrebonne Parish, due south of the city of Houma. It’s the third hurricane to hit Louisiana since late August. […]
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