Tropical Weather & Hurricane Season

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Mexico Faces Flooding Threat After Deadly Hurricane Roslyn Lashes Country
by Sareen Habeshian and Jacob Knutson
October 23, 2022

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(Axioss) Hurricane Roslyn has killed at least two people after making landfall near Santa Cruz on Mexico's west coast as a Category 3 storm on Sunday, local authorities said.

The latest: "Lingering heavy rainfall from the remnants of Roslyn could lead to flooding and possible landslides in areas of rugged terrain over coastal west-central Mexico," the National Hurricane Center said in an update at 10pm ET.

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Driving the news: Roslyn was packing maximum sustained winds of about 120 miles per hour when it made landfall on Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

• It was unleashing "damaging winds, a life-threatening storm surge and flooding rains" as it moved inland over west-central Mexico later in the morning, the NHC said.

Of note: Roslyn became the strongest eastern Pacific hurricane to hit Mexico since Hurricane Patricia struck the country on Oct. 23, 2015.

Read more here: https://www.axios.com/2022/10/22/hurri ... -vallarta

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At least 24 dead in Bangladesh from tropical storm
Source: AP

By JULHAS ALAM

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A tropical storm that lashed Bangladesh left at least 24 people dead and about 8 million without power across the delta nation, officials and news reports said Tuesday.

The government said about 10,000 homes were damaged and more than 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres) of crops were destroyed. Thousands of fishing projects were also washed away.

The United News of Bangladesh news agency said about 20,000 people were marooned because of flooding triggered by tidal surges in the southern coastal district of Bhola.

Tropical Storm Sitrang brewed in the Bay of Bengal before turning north toward Bangladesh’s vast coast, prompting authorities to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people to cyclone shelters Monday. Heavy rains battered the country throughout the day, flooding many areas in the coastal regions across southern and southwestern Bangladesh.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-s ... 86fa1d3b9c
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Over 100 dead, dozens missing in storm-ravaged Philippines
Source: AP

By JIM GOMEZ

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — More than 100 people have died in one of the most destructive storms to lash the Philippines this year with dozens more feared missing after villagers fled in the wrong direction and got buried in a boulder-laden mudslide. Almost two million others were swamped by floods in several provinces, officials said Monday.

At least 53 of 105 people who died — mostly in flash floods and landslides — were from Maguindanao province in a Muslim autonomous region, which was swamped by unusually heavy rains set off by Tropical Storm Nalgae. The storm blew out into the South China Sea on Sunday, leaving a trail of destruction in a large swath of the archipelago.

A large contingent of rescuers with bulldozers, backhoes and sniffer dogs resumed retrieval work in southern Kusiong village in hard-hit Maguindanao, where as many as 80 to 100 people, including entire families, are feared to have been buried by a boulder-laden mudslide or swept away by flash floods that started overnight Thursday, said Naguib Sinarimbo, the interior minister for the Bangsamoro autonomous region run by former separatist guerrillas under a peace pact.

The government’s main disaster-response agency said there were at least 98 storm deaths, and seven other fatalities were later reported by three provincial governors. At least 69 people were injured and 63 others remain missing.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/floods-storm ... 16b5547464

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Tropical Storm Nicole is expected to became a hurricane as it barrels toward the Flori
Source: Insider

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Tropical Storm Nicole strengthened overnight and is on track to pummel the east coast of Florida Wednesday night as a Category 1 hurricane, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. If and when it does, it will be the first hurricane to make landfall in November since Hurricane Kate struck the state's panhandle in 1985.

As of 1 p.m. ET on Wednesday, the storm was about 10 miles from the northwestern Bahamas and 175 miles from West Palm Beach, Florida, according to NOAA's National Hurricane Center. Nicole has sustained maximum winds at 70 mph with strong winds extending nearly 460 miles from the center, moving west at 12 mph.

"We're going to have a very large area of impact, but potentially higher-end impacts as we expect Nicole to intensify into a hurricane as it approaches the Bahamas and the east coast of Florida late Wednesday into Thursday," Michael Brennan, acting deputy director at the NHC, said during a video update of the storm on Tuesday.

After landfall, Nicole is forecast to move across central and northern Florida into southern Georgia on Thursday, then into the Carolinas on Friday.

Read more: https://www.insider.com/nicole-storm-tr ... th-2022-11

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Nicole Makes Landfall In Florida As A Hurricane With Storm Surge, Strong Winds, Flooding Rain
Source: Weather Channel

By weather.com meteorologists less than an hour ago

Nicole made landfall in Florida as a hurricane early Thursday morning, but its impacts including prolonged coastal flooding, beach erosion, strong winds, high surf, heavy rain and tornadoes will continue to impact other parts of the Southeast as well as the mid-Atlantic and Northeast through the end of the workweek.

N​icole's center pushed ashore just south of Vero Beach, Florida, at 3 a.m. EST. It's maximum sustained winds were 75 mph, making Nicole a Category 1 hurricane.

N​ow that Nicole is inland, it has weakened back to a strong tropical storm.

N​icole is just the fourth November hurricane to landfall in the mainland U.S. in records dating to the mid-19th century, and the first to do so in 37 years.

Read more: https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/ne ... orida-east

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House advances giant Texas storm surge project in water bill
Source: AP

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL PHILLIS today

HOUSTON (AP) — Fourteen years after Hurricane Ike ripped through thousands of homes and businesses near Galveston, Texas — but mostly spared the region’s oil refineries and chemical plants — the U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to authorize the most expensive project ever recommended by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect against the next raging storm.

Ike erased beachfront neighborhoods, causing $30 billion in damage. But with so much of the nation’s petrochemical industry in the Houston-Galveston corridor, it could have been even worse. That close call inspired marine science professor Bill Merrell to first propose a massive coastal barrier to protect against a direct hit.

Now, the National Defense Authorization Act includes authorizations for a $34 billion plan that borrows from Merrell’s idea.

“It was quite different than anything we had done in the United States and it took us a little while to come around to it,” said Merrell of Texas A&M University at Galveston.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/texas-housto ... osition_08

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Looks like the Atlantic has its first tropical system

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The nhc clearly shit the bed with this one!

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Cyclone Mocha: Major evacuations as cyclone threatens Bangladesh

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About half a million people are being evacuated to safer areas in south-eastern Bangladesh, ahead of a cyclone that could be extremely dangerous.

Mocha is predicted to make landfall on Sunday, with 170kph (106mph) winds and storm surges of up to 3.6m (12ft).

There are concerns the cyclone could hit the world's largest refugee camp, Cox's Bazar, where close to a million people live in makeshift homes.

Rains are already falling on the camp and red warning flags have been raised.

Cyclone Mocha could be the most powerful storm seen in Bangladesh in nearly two decades.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65581169



Officials with megaphones have been out warning people of the need to shelter or evacuate
Credit: Image source, Rahmat Ullah

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