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Bladen County Schools announce remote learning day Tuesday due to severe weather threat

Posted on January 8, 2024January 8, 2024 by WeatherPreppers

7 minutes ago Bladen County Schools (Photo: WWAY) BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — Bladen County Schools has announced that Tuesday will be a remote learning day due to the threat for severe weather. School officials say the maximum wind speed limit for buses to travel is 35 mph. With wind gusts expected upwards of 50-60 mph, the school says they made the decision out of an abundance of caution. Elementary and middle school teachers will…

Weather Aware: Strong winds, flooding and tornadoes possible Tuesday

Posted on January 8, 2024January 8, 2024 by WeatherPreppers

Tuesday will be the first Weather Aware Day of 2024. There is a chance for strong wind gusts, downed trees, power outages, flooding and even tornadoes. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tuesday is a day to be Weather Aware. There is a chance for strong to severe thunderstorms, wind gusts up to 50 mph, flooding rains ranging from 1-4″+ across the area and even tornadoes. This is a prime set up for downed trees and power outages….

Cape Fear facing risk of severe weather Tuesday, including strong wind, tornado threat

Posted on January 8, 2024January 8, 2024 by WeatherPreppers

5 minutes ago A squall line is likely Tuesday afternoon/evening (Photo: WWAY) WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — There’s an increasing chance of severe weather Tuesday across the Cape Fear. The Storm Prediction Center has placed the entire region under an enhanced risk (level 3 out of 5) for severe storms. (Photo: WWAY) The threat includes the risk of tornadoes and strong, damaging wind. (Photo: WWAY) The latest model guidance suggests a two part risk of severe…

Texas to see wild bout of weather with rare blizzard, tornadoes

Posted on January 8, 2024January 8, 2024 by WeatherPreppers

People wait in line to enter the H-E-B during Winter Storm Uri in February 2021. Billy Calzada /San Antonio Express-News From El Paso to San Antonio to Dallas, there’s a wind advisory in place from the National Weather Service as a massive storm moves across the United States, bringing with it all kinds of weather. In the Panhandle, it’s expected to bring several inches of snow, creating dangerous traveling conditions as whiteouts are forecasted. Here’s…

Duke Energy prepares for damaging winds, power outages on Tuesday

Posted on January 8, 2024January 8, 2024 by WeatherPreppers

Duke Energy crews on Monday were preparing for strong, damaging winds and heavy rainfall expected on Tuesday, a WRAL Weather Alert Day. The Triangle will be under a Level 2 risk on Tuesday, when severe storms are likely to begin in the Triangle around 6 p.m. or 7 p.m. The severe potential will be greater south and east of the Triangle, where multiple WRAL counties are under a Level 3 risk, including Cumberland and Harnett….

Six years after Hurricane Harvey, the city of Houston still hasn’t allocated $200 million in relief funds

Posted on January 8, 2024January 8, 2024 by WeatherPreppers

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. More than six years after Hurricane Harvey flooded thousands of homes and killed more than 80 people on the Texas Coast, the city of Houston has yet to allocate $200 million in federal relief funds to victims, according to the state’s General Land Office. In a letter to newly inaugurated Houston Mayor John…

City of Houston asks fans to be prepared for severe weather ahead of CFP national championship game

Posted on January 8, 2024January 8, 2024 by WeatherPreppers

Houston emergency management officials are prepared to keep fans safe during the tailgate outside of NRG Stadium. HOUSTON — Houston residents and visitors should prepare for severe weather on Monday. Staff at the Emergency Operations Center shared parts of their plans to keep fans safe. According to the City of Houston, a wind advisory will be issued by the National Weather Service from 6 a.m. Monday to 6 p.m. on Tuesday. The cold front is…

Houston Mayor Whitmire, Texas land commissioner pledge to work together to disperse remaining Hurricane Harvey relief funds

Posted on January 5, 2024January 5, 2024 by WeatherPreppers

REUTERS/Adrees Latif Houses are seen submerged in flood waters from Hurricane Harvey in Northwest Houston on Aug. 30, 2017. After years of squabbling between Houston officials and the Texas General Land Office, the city’s new mayor and the state’s land commissioner both have expressed a willingness to work with each other. That could spell relief for Houston residents who are still trying to recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Texas Land…

'This is bad news': Brad Panovich tracking severe weather threat next week

Posted on January 2, 2024January 2, 2024 by WeatherPreppers

While the first wave could produce some wintry weather, the bigger story is a possible severe weather outbreak in the Carolinas next week, Brad Panovich says. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The new year is getting off to an exciting weather start thanks to an active storm track that could bring a wintry mix and severe weather to the Carolinas over the next week or so, according to Chief Meteorologist Brad Panovich. For the winter lovers out…

'This is bad news': Brad Panovich tracking severe weather threat next week

Posted on January 2, 2024January 2, 2024 by WeatherPreppers

Flash floods kill 21 people in South Africa’s coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal, police say

Posted on December 30, 2023December 30, 2023 by WeatherPreppers

12 minutes ago South Africa. Photo: MGN JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Flash floods killed over a dozen people in the small town of Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal province, South African officials said Saturday. “As of Friday, 29 December 2023, a total of 21 bodies have been recovered,” said police spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda. The floods hit the town on Christmas Day, destroying about 1400 homes, with the death toll expected to rise as an unconfirmed number of…

Flooding, heat and tornadoes: 2023 Cape Fear weather event recap

Posted on December 29, 2023December 29, 2023 by WeatherPreppers

16 seconds ago Wrightsville Beach during Tropical Storm Idalia (Photo: WWAY) WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — It was another wild year of weather across the Cape Fear. From a tropical storm, to flooding events, heat waves and tornadoes, the area saw a little bit of everything (except snow) in 2023. As far as weather extremes go, Wilmington saw its hottest temperature on August 13th of 97. While that was the hottest weather, February also brought a…

Wildfires, unseasonable heat, flood and melting ice are symptoms of Earth's warmest year yet

Posted on December 28, 2023December 28, 2023 by WeatherPreppers

Earth is finishing up its warmest year in the past 174 years, and very likely the past 125,000. Unyielding heat waves broiled Phoenix and Argentina. Wildfires raged across Canada. Flooding in Libya killed thousands. Wintertime ice cover in the dark seas around Antarctica was at unprecedented lows. This year’s global temperatures did not just beat prior records. They left them in the dust. From June through November, the mercury spent month after month soaring off…

Flood warning issued as Cape Fear River rises in Cumberland, Bladen counties

Posted on December 28, 2023December 28, 2023 by WeatherPreppers

A flood warning is in effect for parts of Cumberland and Bladen counties due to high water levels for the Cape Fear River. According to the National Weather Service, the Cape Fear River on Wednesday at the William O. Huske Lock was at 36.2 feet, expected to rise above flood stage to a crest of 46.1 feet by early Saturday morning. A flood warning remains in effect until Sunday evening, Dec. 31, when the river is…

Woman who died from complications related to Maui wildfire weeks after escaping becomes 100th victim

Posted on December 27, 2023December 27, 2023 by WeatherPreppers

The doctor initially neglected to attribute her death to the wildfire, but later examination said the thick black smoke she breathed in led to the woman dying. LAHAINA, Hawaii — Sharlene Rabang and her calico cat fled the wildfire that destroyed her town on Maui and arrived at a family home on another Hawaii island after a 24-hour odyssey that included sleeping in a car. Dazed, coughing and weak, the frail but feisty 78-year-old headed…

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