Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Wednesday that Hurricane Milton “is currently in the process of making landfall” as a Category 3 hurricane in Sarasota County, and he warned residents to “hunker down” until the storm passes. “So the storm is here. It’s time for everybody to hunker down,” DeSantis said at a press conference… Source link
Tropical storm Hilary made landfall in Mexico over Baja California peninsula on Sunday and is expected to head towards the US south-west until Monday as authorities warn of life-threatening and catastrophic flooding. Despite weakening to a category 1, the storm was still packing winds of 80mph as it approached the south-western US, with “catastrophic” flooding expected to follow landfall. Evacuations were underway in many areas, including Baja California and in the mountains and foothills of San Bernardino county, in California. Experts predicted life-threatening floods and landslides, while some desert regions could receive two to three years’ worth of rain in three days. “People need to take the storm seriously, they need to listen to their local officials, and they need to make sure that they’re not putting themselves in harm’s way as the storm passes through,” Deanne Criswell, administrator of the federal emergency management agency (Fema), told CNN’s State of the Union. “Hurricane Hilary is going to be a serious impact and threat to southern California.” It would be the first tropical storm to hit …
Nearly 800 flights have been cancelled and tens of thousands of homes have lost power as a slow-moving typhoon made landfall in western Japan early on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue flood and landslide warnings. Approaching from the Pacific Ocean, Typhoon Lan hit the southern tip of Wakayama prefecture, 400km (250 miles) south-west of Tokyo. The typhoon had sustained winds of 150km/h (93mph) and was moving north-west across the western part of the main island of Honshu at around 15km/h (9mph). The typhoon, which followed closely on the heels of Typhoon Khanun during Japan’s peak Obon holiday season, lashed wide swathes of central and western Japan with heavy rain and powerful winds. Television footage showed rivers gushing and on the verge of bursting their banks. Homes and stores suffered water damage to their floors, and in Nara city, strong winds had felled scaffolding at a construction site. Vehicles make their way through heavy rain in Tanabe city, Wakayama prefecture, western Japan on Tuesday. Photograph: ïüå¥åíéOòY/AP Power outages hit almost 90,000 households in central and western …
