Weather

Earth sweltered to a record hot September last month, with climate officials saying there’s nearly a two-to-one chance that 2020 will end up as the hottest year on record.

Debris piles went airborne as Delta blew through, and some of the wreckage floated around in the storm surge.

The city of Lake Charles was already a landscape of towering debris piles still uncollected after Hurricane Laura.

Large swells up to eight feet high — generated by the distant Hurricane Teddy — are creating dangerous conditions and rip currents, according to the National Weather Service.

For the second time in the history, the National Hurricane Center is using the Greek alphabet to name new cyclones during this year's record-breaking hurricane season. 

“The Trump Administration delayed, dragged its feet and resisted allocating these badly needed funds,” said Rep. Velázquez, who was born in Puerto Rico.

Sally's remnants were over South Carolina on Thursday afternoon and were expected to move into the Atlantic within 24 hours.

The smoke might get pushed south this weekend, weather experts say, but it’s likely to return.

Authorities in Pensacola said 200 National Guard members would arrive Thursday to help. Curfews were announced in Escambia County and in some coastal Alabama towns.

Sally will bring an "extremely dangerous and life-threatening storm surge, hurricane-force winds and torrential rain with flash flooding" Monday, forecasters say.

A professor whose research has been supported by fossil fuel companies has been hired for a top position at the federal agency that oversees weather and climate forecasting.

With more than two months left in the current hurricane season, forecasters advise coastal residents to have a plan should a tropical system threaten or strike.

While the flooding isn’t expected until Thursday afternoon, the rain starts earlier during the day.

Hundreds of people as far away as Philadelphia and Long Island, New York, contributed to the USGS' "Did You Feel It?" map, reporting only weak or light shaking and no damage.

New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection says the state is probably overdue for a more significant earthquake.