DERNA: The UAE Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Team in Libya, announced the location of 229 missing victims of Hurricane Daniel which hit the Libyan city of Derna on September 10. The UAE team is supporting the Libyan authorities and teams in helping the affected and displaced, providing them with the needed aid and relief […]
A year of turbulence, of tragedy, a year that tested resolve and grit, that pushed nations and their people to take a knee before its overwhelming onslaught. The buckling challenges of pandemic aside, the world has been lashed with natural furies from raging wildfires devouring the Australian landscape, to shrieking hurricanes leaving a crumbling Central […]
Hurricane Iota is forecast to strengthen to an “extremely dangerous” Category Four by the time it makes landfall in Central America on Monday, the US National Hurricane Center warned, two weeks after powerful storm Eta devastated much of the region and left more than 200 people dead or missing. Iota strengthened to a Category Two […]
A strengthening Tropical Storm Eta made landfall on Florida’s Lower Matecumbe Key on Sunday night, days after leaving scores of dead and over 100 missing in Mexico and Central America. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami declared hurricane and storm surge warnings for the Keys from Ocean Reef to the Dry Tortugas, including Florida […]
Tropical Storm Eta spun through northern Nicaragua Wednesday after lashing the country’s Caribbean coast for much of the past day, its floodwaters isolating already remote communities and setting off deadly landslides that killed at least three people. The storm had weakened from the Category 4 hurricane that battered the coast, but it was moving so […]
Hurricane Eta continues to intensify as it churns in the Caribbean Sea toward Nicaragua, expected to bring devastating conditions with it, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Early Monday morning saw winds from Eta grow up to 75 mph. The storm is currently heading west towards Central America at 12 mph, according to an […]
Hurricane Zeta, the 27th named storm in a very busy Atlantic season, made landfall on the Caribbean coast of the eastern Yucatan Peninsula late Monday while whipping the resorts around Tulum with rain and wind. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Zeta came ashore just north of Tulum with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph […]
In the southwest corner of Louisiana, residents are beginning the second wave of recovery after two storms brought damaging effects within a six week span. Creole, where Delta made landfall Friday, was struck with top winds of 100 mph (155 kph), which then moved over to Lake Charles, a city where Hurricane Laura damaged nearly […]
A high-speed hurricane bore down on Mexico’s Caribbean coast Tuesday, triggering the mobilisation of thousands of soldiers and the evacuation of residents and tourists in a string of top beach resorts. Hurricane Delta rapidly intensified in the Caribbean to reach Category 4 status, the second-highest, and was on course to hit the Yucatan Peninsula by […]
