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The 2020 hurricane season has been one for the record books. With activity expected to continue, AccuWeather’s team of forecasters has upped their forecast for this season to 28 named storms. This would tie the record for the most named storms in a season, which was set in 2005. Other changes to AccuWeather’s hurricane season forecast include an increase in the number of forecasted hurricanes to 13, an increase in the number of major hurricanes…

BILOXI, Miss. — Along parts of the Gulf coast, first responders and families are feeling drained from this year’s hurricane season even though there’s more rain on the way and more trouble brewing in the tropics. It’s been a tough year to make and communicate hurricane forecasts with storm tracks constantly shifting, not to mention public health concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. “We worry about hurricane fatigue. We worry about people becoming frustrated,” Vincent Creel,…

ATHENS, Greece — A third person has been found dead in central Greece following extensive damage caused by a tropical-like storm over the weekend. Authorities said the body of a missing 62-year-old man was found Monday outside the central city of Karditsa, while fire service drones were being used to help rescuers in dinghies try to find a woman still missing in a nearby area. The storm, named Ianos, swept across parts of western and…

RALEIGH (WTVD) — Help is on the way as hundreds of Duke Energy line and tree workers head to the gulf coast to assist in power restoration to residents left reeling in Hurricane Sally’s aftermath. “This would be my seventh or eighth storm with Duke,” Jason Medlin said. It still never gets any easier for Medlin’s family. “It takes a little getting used to with them. My two oldest kids are fine with it, but…

By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press HOUSTON — Parts of Texas and Louisiana braced Monday for flooding and damaging storm surge as Tropical Storm Beta slowly worked its way into a part of the country that’s already been drenched and battered during this year’s exceptionally busy hurricane season. The storm was no longer expected to gain hurricane strength and forecasters decreased estimated rainfall totals from Beta early Monday, saying in a U.S. National Hurricane Center…

HOUSTON — Tropical storm conditions were expected to begin Monday morning in parts of Texas and Louisiana as Tropical Storm Beta slowly worked its way into a part of the country that’s already been drenched and battered during this year’s exceptionally busy hurricane season. No longer expected to gain hurricane strength, forecasters also decreased estimated rainfall totals from Beta early Monday, saying in a U.S. National Hurricane Center advisory that up to 15 inches (38…

By WRAL Severe Weather Center The tropics remain extremely active this week after Hurricane Teddy brought heavy flooding to the Outer Banks over the weekend. For only the second time in recorded history, all of the possible hurricane names have been used up this season, and we still have 10 weeks to go. We will now switch into using the Greek alphabet for names. Tropical Storm Beta is in the Gulf of Mexico battling dry…

RODANTHE, N.C. — Portions of the primary road linking North Carolina’s Outer Banks barrier islands to the mainland were closed on Sunday due to coastal flooding from high tides and Hurricane Teddy. Traffic on North Carolina Highway 12 was halted on long stretches on Hatteras and Ocracoke islands, the Department of Transportation reported. On Hatteras Island, the road was closed from Rodanthe north to the Basnight Bridge due to standing water. N.C. 12 also was…

By STEFANIE DAZIO, Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The destruction wrought by a wind-driven wildfire in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles approached 156 square miles (404 square kilometers) Sunday, burning structures, homes and a nature center in a famed Southern California wildlife sanctuary in foothill desert communities. The blaze, known as the Bobcat Fire, is expected to grow through Sunday and Monday as critical fire weather conditions continued due to gusty wind and low…

By WRAL Severe Weather Center Hurricane Teddy was downgraded to a Category 2 storm on Sunday morning. Teddy is on path toward the Atlantic Canada. The coast of North Carolina is expected to have life-threatening rip currents over the next couple of days because of Teddy. If you are headed to the beach, make sure to swim near a life guard. If you do get caught in a rip current, don’t panic and swim parallel…

By WRAL Severe Weather Center Tropical Storm Beta is in the Gulf of Mexico and inching toward Texas and Louisiana. The storm is moving at about 3 mph, which is nearly stationary. Beta is expected to bring intense rainfall for extended periods of time and flood the coast because of how slow the storm is moving. Rain from the storm has already began flooding the coast of Texas. Outer bands of the storm will continue…

By WRAL Severe Weather Center Tropical Storm Beta is in the Gulf of Mexico and inching toward Texas and Louisiana. The storm is moving at about 3 mph, which is nearly stationary. Beta is expected to bring intense rainfall for extended periods of time and flood the coast because of how slow the storm is moving. The storm has already caused flooding along the coast of Texas, according to local media reports. Outer bands of…

By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An exceptionally busy Atlantic hurricane season was churning along Saturday as the Texas coast prepared for a tropical storm that’s forecast to strengthen into a hurricane before breaching its shores in the week ahead. Both the city of Galveston and Galveston County on Saturday issued voluntary evacuation orders ahead of Tropical Storm Beta, as did the city of Seabrook to the north of Galveston. Mayor Pro…

ATHENS, Greece — A storm pounded parts of central Greece, creating flooding Saturday that killed two people, left 1 missing and forced emergency workers to rescue more than 600 people. Authorities identified the two victims as an elderly woman found dead in her flooded home in the region of Thessaly and a 63-year-old shepherd swept away by rising floodwaters. They also said a woman who is missing ignored instructions by firefighters and police not to…

HOUSTON — An exceptionally busy Atlantic hurricane season was churning along Saturday morning as the Texas coast prepared for a tropical storm that’s forecast to strengthen into a hurricane before breaching its shores in the week ahead. Tropical Storm Beta was brewing in the Gulf of Mexico, 290 miles (470 kilometers) east of the mouth of the Rio Grande, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an advisory. The system was forecast to become a…