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Hurricane Francine made landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday after strengthening to a Category 2 storm, bringing powerful winds, storm surge and potential flooding to the northern U.S. Gulf Coast. CBC | World News
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Francine becomes a hurricane in Gulf of Mexico, warnings in effect along Louisiana coast
Francine became a hurricane Tuesday evening as it barrelled toward south Louisiana, strengthening over extremely warm waters as those in possible harm’s way rushed to complete storm preparations, filling sandbags, buying gas and stocking up on necessities for an expected landfall in the coming day. CBC | World News
Read More »Ernesto strengthens to hurricane after hitting Puerto Rico and could turn toward Canada
Ernesto strengthened into a hurricane on Wednesday as it dropped torrential rain on Puerto Rico and left nearly half of all clients in the U.S. territory without power as it threatened to strengthen into a major storm en route to Bermuda. CBC | World News
Read More »Hurricane Debby bears down on Florida, bringing fears of catastrophic flooding
The centre of Hurricane Debby is expected to bring potential record-setting rains and catastrophic flooding to northern Florida before it heads to the coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina. CBC | World News
Read More »Sand from the Sahara Desert causing recent lull in the hurricane season: scientists
Tiny grains of sand from the Sahara Desert are to blame for the almost month-long lull in this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, scientists say. But it could soon come to an end. CBC | World News
Read More »Texas braces for tropical storm Beryl, which could make landfall as Category 2 hurricane
Forecasters warned that Beryl could bring punishing winds and rain to the Texas coast and beyond. CBC | World News
Read More »Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Mexican coastal resort area
Hurricane Beryl has made landfall on Mexico’s coast near the resort of Tulum as a Category 2 storm, whipping trees and knocking out power as it came ashore after leaving a trail of destruction across the eastern Caribbean. CBC | World News
Read More »Hurricane Beryl roars toward Mexico after leaving destruction in Jamaica and eastern Caribbean
Hurricane Beryl ripped off roofs in Jamaica, jumbled fishing boats in Barbados and damaged or destroyed 95 per cent of homes on a pair of islands in St. Vincent and the Grenadines before rumbling toward the Cayman Islands and taking aim at Mexico’s Caribbean coast after leaving at least 10 dead in its wake. CBC | World News
Read More »Beryl heads toward Jamaica as major hurricane after ripping through southeast Caribbean
Hurricane Beryl roared through open waters Tuesday as a powerful Category 4 storm heading toward Jamaica after earlier crossing islands in the southeast Caribbean, killing at least six people. CBC | World News
Read More »Foreign Office issues ‘airports are closed’ travel alert as six die in hurricane
At least six are already dead as hurricane Beryl hits in the Caribbean and officials are telling UK travellers they could be evacuated Daily Express :: Travel Feed
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