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USA Today
15 hours ago
- Climate
- USA Today
See why the 2025 hurricane season is off to a slow start — how long will it stay quiet?
The hurricane season has gotten off to a slow start, but this doesn't always mean the hurricane season will be less dangerous overall. The 2025 season is still expected to have 13 to 19 named storms, and six to 10 of those will become hurricanes, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The agency's website underscores the importance of being prepared regardless of the hurricane season forecast. When do hurricanes typically form? The official Atlantic hurricane season starts June 1 and ends Nov. 30, according to the NOAA. The agency's website shows that 97% of tropical cyclone activity occurs during this time, and August, September and October see the majority of storms that result in major damage in the United States. More: National Hurricane Center watching another potential storm off Southeast coast Unable to view our graphics? Click here to see them. Since 1851, only 7% of tropical storms in the Atlantic have come in July. According to the NOAA's Hurricane Research Division, that is insignificant compared with the percentage of named storms that have formed through the busiest hurricane season months of August (22%), September (35%) and October (21%). In other words, on average, one named storm forms in July on an annual basis, according to The Weather Channel. How many storms reach land each year? Over the past 30 years, from 1991 to 2020, an average of 14 storms each year developed, with three reaching at least Category 3 wind intensity and seven turning into hurricanes. According to NOAA statistics, one to two of those hurricanes typically reach land in the United States, according to the Weather Channel. The number of storms that make landfall varies considerably each year, according to the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. Here's a look at storms that have made landfall since 2020: It's important to remember that hurricane activity can fluctuate year to year, and even a slightly above-average season can lead to significant effects on coastal regions, according to Colorado State University experts on seasonal hurricane forecasts. On average, the first Atlantic named storm forms on June 20, said Phil Klotzbach, a senior research scientist in the atmospheric science department at Colorado State University. Klotzbach is among the seasonal hurricane outlook experts who predicted a busier-than-average season. Tropical Storm Andrea, the first named storm of the season, formed in the Central Atlantic on June 20 but lasted only 12 hours. Historically, July is a quieter month for hurricanes because it's fairly early in the season, but that's not always the case: 2024's Category 5 Hurricane Beryl showed us that there can be significant impact from July storms. What's causing the lull in named storms? These conditions are the main causes of a slow start for the Atlantic hurricane season, according to Accuweather: Scientists from Colorado State University recently released an updated forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season on July 9, and there is a morsel of good news: "We have decreased our forecast slightly," meteorologist Phil Klotzbach said. Instead of nine hurricanes forming in the Atlantic basin in 2025, the new forecast calls for eight. An average season sees seven. More: Storm Tracker: National Hurricane Center watching disturbance in Atlantic SOURCES National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Climate Prediction Center, The Weather Channel, Accuweather and USA TODAY research CONTRIBUTING Gabe Hauari, Dinah Voyles Pulver and Doyle Rice/USA TODAY
RNZ News
15 hours ago
- RNZ News
Search underway for elderly woman missing from Bishopdale, Christchurch
Beryl is missing from the Christchurch suburb of Bishopdale. Photo: Supplied / NZ Police A search is underway for a 79-year-old who was reported missing in the Christchurch suburb of Bishopdale on Thursday afternoon. Police said that the woman named Beryl had a medical condition and that officers and her family were concerned for her well-being. She was last seen wearing a grey or light green hoodie and dark blue trackpants. Anyone who has any information on her whereabouts is urged to call police on 105. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Is this the worst celebrity diet you've ever seen?
My first food memory is my mum Beryl telling me the things on my plate were chips, when they were actually parsnips. She was trying to make me eat something healthy, but she wasn't fooling me. I knew they weren't chips and was having none of it. Trying to get me to eat better has been an ongoing battle since I was born. First my mother, and now my wife Gemma. Only yesterday she gave me a vegan sausage roll, and lied to me, saying it was made with meat. People try to trick me all the time to make me more healthy. My mum did all the cooking when I was growing up in Wraysbury, Berkshire – but was she any good? I have no idea. I'm a barbarian when it comes to food, and I eat terribly. I just have chips and sausages. I don't eat any greens at all. I once went to see Queen play in Tokyo, and afterwards they had a big party at a sushi restaurant. Everyone's sitting down and eating, save me. I don't like sushi. Freddy Mercury comes over and says, 'Darling, why are you not eating?' I say I'm perfectly all right, and just so happy to be here at this cool evening. Freddie then organised his security man to go out and pick up a McDonald's. So I ate McDonald's in a Tokyo sushi restaurant, ordered by Freddie Mercury. And that was the last thing I ever ate in Japan. My McDonald's order is always a plain Quarter Pounder, with nothing on it at all. No salt, no cheese, no nothing. That, and a medium or large fries. I don't know if this is because I'm autistic, but I'm able to eat the same thing every day for months and months. When I'm at home in Los Angeles, breakfast is two eggs and a hash brown. Or a bacon sandwich. Then dinner is a sausage sandwich, with one sausage. Then in the evening some English chocolate – a Fudge bar or Caramac. I don't really drink, so I never put alcohol on my tour riders. And as I get a bit nervous before gigs I don't really eat, so I don't ask for anything. The rider is less for me than for the band, so they can have what they want. I hate pretty much everything my wife eats. She's vegetarian, borderline vegan, and all her stuff smells horrendous, all garlicky and herby. We are so different from each other. I don't even know the names of most of the stuff she eats. All I know is that it smells terrible, and I often have to sit somewhere else so I can enjoy my own food. My comfort food is white toast with butter. Anything else on top ruins a perfectly nice piece of toast. I also like sandwiches – salmon, peanut butter, Marmite and, if I'm being really adventurous, ham. When you consider a ham sandwich exotic, you see the problem. I don't drink water because I genuinely believe I'm allergic to it. If I drink more than one glass, it makes my tummy feel horrible. My favourite drink used to be Coca-Cola, but now it's Coke Zero. I drink a lot of Coke Zero. I do miss a proper British pub lunch. Even though I don't drink, there's something about sitting on the grass outside a lovely pub. I just love that atmosphere. My last supper would be Gemma's roast dinner, with roast potatoes and her Yorkshire pudding. But I'd have a sausage instead of beef or lamb – two if I'm feeling special. We've found an LA company that does decent British sausages. It amazes me that I've got through life this far, still reasonably slim, without any ailments. I've done nothing to earn that with my diet. Nothing at all.
Montreal Gazette
16-07-2025
- Climate
- Montreal Gazette
Hanes: Brace yourselves for Thursday — destructive weather is now the norm
By It wasn't a typhoon. It was just a regular old thunderstorm. But when it barrelled through Montreal on Sunday after days of a heat wave, a record amount of rainfall poured from the skies, flooding basements and inundating underpasses. Homeowners from Ahuntsic-Cartierville to St-Léonard found their belongings floating. An octogenarian had to be rescued from his nearly submerged vehicle by Montreal police. And it could happen all over again on Thursday, weather forecasters have warned. We've now reached the point where climate change has made what was once extraordinary ordinary. Severe weather isn't a once-a-decade or even once-a-year occurrence anymore. During our hot, humid summers, it has practically become a weekly phenomenon. Last August, hurricane Debby, which had been downgraded to a post-tropical storm by the time it arrived, doused Montreal with up to 150 millimetres of rain in some parts of the region — a wet month's worth in a single day. It caused a record $2.5 billion in damages, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada, surpassing the 1998 ice storm as Quebec's costliest event. Montreal had a prelude to Debby's destruction last July, when the remnants of tropical storm Beryl drenched us with up to 100 millimetres of rain in some places. Sunday's torrential rain brought 80 millimetres to Trudeau airport in less than an hour. Yet the fallout from this nameless thunderstorm was much the same. On a St-Léonard street where water poured down sloping driveways, filling subterranean garages and basements, it's the second or even third year in a row residents have experienced this kind of flooding. Some unlucky folks had just finished renovations to recover from the previous deluge, only to now have to start all over again. The mental and financial toll of dealing with this kind of damage can't be overestimated. Many will be out tens of thousands of dollars for work not covered by insurance. Premiums will rise. Their home values may sink due to the repeated flooding, which they would have to report on their seller's declaration. Plus there's the trauma of having your possessions ruined, your home — your sanctuary — made inhospitable. More and more people are having to go through this rigmarole once. However, some are having to endure it multiple times. The city is advising homeowners to protect their property. Some are installing sump pumps, ceramic tile or epoxy flooring that can be more easily cleaned up after water infiltration. But it costs money. Tenants may have no choice in the matter if their landlords don't act. And those living in basement apartments can end up losing everything. There's been talk of outlawing basement apartments or 'garden suites,' as partially below-grade condos are often called, due to the risk of water damage. But the housing crisis makes it impossible to scrap these units altogether. The borough of St-Laurent has restricted the use of some basements for certain purposes in response to flooding. And there are new regulations for downward sloping driveways to avoid them funnelling rainwater into homes. There's only so much residents can do to avoid infiltration of their dwellings. During last summer's storms, sewers backing up into people's homes was a primary cause of many flooded basements. Despite hundreds of millions being invested in water infrastructure, deferred maintenance in decades past has set the city behind. Now it's hard to keep up with the repair backlog. And each major weather event weakens aging water mains, which can lead to breakages — or even geysers. Now sponge parks and sponge streets that use naturalistic design to absorb runoff are all the rage. But it takes time — and money — to transform all the asphalt and concrete of the cityscape to mitigate the impact of climate change. And it's not just water infrastructure that is stressed by heavy rainfall. Highways, parking lots and underpasses are also under strain. Highway 40 came to a standstill in the West Island on Sunday because of pooling water. Last summer, storms resulted in the temporary closure of the Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge and Highway 13. The bottom line is we should expect more of the same — and more often. Destructive thunderstorms and diluvial rains are now the norm rather the exception. Brace yourselves: The same conditions that preceded Sunday's deluge — a heat wave followed by a cold front — are brewing again for Thursday. The skies are expected to open. Let's just hope it's not a disaster déjà vu.
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
‘Not Again': For Third Year In A Row, Flash Floods Slam Vermont On Same Date
For Vermonters, July 10 is starting to feel cursed. For the third straight year, flash floods ripped through parts of Vermont on that exact date — this time, damaging homes and stranding residents in the small town of Sutton after up to 5 inches of rain fell in just a few hours Thursday. The downpour overwhelmed local waterways, causing a nearby brook to burst its banks and cut off access to more than a dozen residences. Swift-water rescue teams were called in from nearby communities to assist evacuations, including two homes where people needed to be pulled to safety. And while this year's storm wasn't as widespread or deadly as previous years, the emotional toll was heavy. (MORE: Flowing Water Can Do As Much Damage As A Tornado) "It wasn't like last time, it was worse," Sutton resident Michelle Tanner told the Associated Press. "Oh my god it was like 'not again'...We don't know if the house will make it again." Her daughter, Tanika Allard, said she felt helpless. "I wanted to cry. It's like the third year they've almost lost everything." (MORE: Texas River Rises 30 Feet In One Hour, Again) Just days earlier, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott had warned residents of the mounting toll these storms are taking: 'In the last two years, more than 150 cities, towns, and villages across Vermont felt the impacts of flooding, which caused over a billion dollars in damage.' He noted that storms in July 2023 and 2024 also struck on the same dates, adding an eerie twist to an already devastating pattern. Last year, flash flooding linked to the remnants of Hurricane Beryl killed two people and swept away an apartment building in central Vermont. The year before, Vermont experienced rainfall rates of 3 to 4 inches per hour, also with deadly consequences. (MORE: What To Do Before, During And After A Flood) Why does it keep happening this time of year? July is the second-rainiest month for Burlington, just after June, according to meteorologist Sara Tonks. "July is when warm, humid air is most abundant in northern parts of the U.S., and the jet stream slowing down during this time of year helps allow storms to stall over one location," adds senior meteorologist Chris Dolce. Meteorologist and climate expert Jennifer Gray also points out that Vermont's mountainous terrain makes the region more vulnerable to flash flooding when heavy rain hits. As towns like Sutton begin yet another round of cleanup and rebuilding, one thing is clear: this is no longer a once-in-a-century event. It's starting to become a heartbreaking new normal. lead editor Jenn Jordan explores how weather and climate weave through our daily lives, shape our routines and leave lasting impacts on our communities.
