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The latest on Hermine's rain and wind. Damage, power outages, flooding, and rough surf is lashing southern and coastal Texas as Hermine moves through southern Texas.
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The risk of tornadoes and flash flooding will continue over Texas tonight as Hermine remains mean.
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Hurricane watches are up for the Texas/Mexico border region as fast developing Tropical Storm Hermine steams towards the coast at 13 mph. Hermine was a tropical depression twelve hours ago, got its name just six hours ago, but already is a threat to intensify into a hurricane by tonight. It’s remarkable how fast Gulf of [...]

Steadily intensifying Tropical Storm Hermine is closing in on the coast near the Texas/Mexico border, and should move ashore late tonight. Hermine became a tropical depression at 11pm last night, and could become a minimal hurricane by 11 pm tonight. Hermine’s rate of intensification from nothing to a strong tropical storm is one of the [...]

Tropical Storm Hermine hit the Mexican coast 40 miles south of the Texas border at 9:30 pm EDT last night, with 60 mph sustained winds. Top winds observed in Texas from the storm were 50 mph with gusts to 59 mph at Port Isabel near the Mexican border, and winds at Brownsville hit 45 mph, [...]

Hermine is expected to produce total rainfall accumulations of 4 to 8 inches, with possible isolated maximum amounts of 10 inches from the middle Texas coast northward through central Texas and over central and eastern Oklahoma. These rains are expected to spread across southeastern Kansas, northwestern Arkansas, and Missouri during the next few days and [...]

AFP – Some 3,500 people were evacuated after a rushing wildfire swept through part of the western US state of Colorado, destroying a number of homes, officials said on Tuesday.

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Reuters – Emergency services in Guatemala on Monday resumed their search for victims of landslides that killed and buried dozens of people, as further rain was predicted for the Central American country.

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AP – Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as torrential rains pounded the country.

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AFP – Rising flood waters threatened hundreds of Australian homes Tuesday, after scores were inundated by weekend storms which caused millions of dollars of damage, officials said.

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AP – Forecasters say Tropical Storm Hermine (hur-MEEN’) has crossed into Texas.

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AFP – The drought in Russia and floods in Pakistan are part of a global trend of unpredictable weather patterns and rainfall that threaten food security, experts gathered in Stockholm said.

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AP – Tropical Storm Hermine was forecast to continue losing strength as it moved over southern Texas and northeastern Mexico on Tuesday.

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AFP – Powerful Tropical Storm Hermine slammed into far northeastern Mexico and then barreled into US territory early Tuesday, threatening storm surges, flash floods and tornadoes on both sides of the border.

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Reuters – Tropical Storm Hermine barely maintained its tropical storm status on Tuesday as 40 mile per hour winds kept lashing south Texas and the storm moved further inland about 15 miles south-southeast of San Antonio, Texas, the National Hurricane Center said.

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It is still possible that the rebirth of once-Tropical Storm Gaston will occur. What is definite is that the system will spread rain squalls across the Leeward Islands into Tuesday.
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After lashing southern Texas into the start of today, the worst of Hermine will slam central Texas through tonight.
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The greatest flood risk from Hermine through tonight spans central Texas, including San Antonio and Corpus Christi.
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A destructive wildfire near Boulder that has destroyed dozens of homes and forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes has been fanned by extremely low humidity and erratic, gusty winds behind a cold front plowing through the Plains.
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Flooding downpours from Tropical Rainstorm Hermine are forecast to spread northward this week over the central U.S.
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After a brief spike in temperatures to midsummer levels into Wednesday, autumnlike weather will return to the Northeast during the second half of the week.
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The threat of localized excessive rainfall and flooding will persist along the storm track in Japan until Malou heads back out to sea.
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In Tokyo, the mean daily temperature since the start of summer has been 84.5 F, or 8.4 F above normal. For the last four weeks, the temperature departure has been about 10 F above normal.
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When Hurricane Katrina slammed Washington Parish with an unexpected, powerful force that left the landscape battered and largely unrecognizable, and the community stunned, shaken and in shock, Tommy Thiebaud, Director of Emergency Operations, was in charge.
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MIAMI BEACH A thief stole four suitcases containing clothes, a camera, credit cards and passports from a Dodge Caliber in the 1100 block of Fifth Street between 10 and 10:15 a.m. Aug. 21.
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The rebirth of once-Tropical Storm Gaston may occur soon, potentially before the system crosses the Leeward Islands late tonight into Tuesday.
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A storm system shifting from the central Plains to the upper Midwest will slam parts of this zone with everything from high winds and heavy rain to severe storms today into tonight.
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Tropical Storm Hermine has formed over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. It threatens flooding rainfall and gusty winds in northeastern Mexico and southern Texas.
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