Tag: Storm

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  Storm in Central America leaves at least 18 dead, and hundreds homeless

  

  Emergency workers were searching for seven people still missing Monday as El Salvador and its Central American neighbors picked through the destruction after the first-named Pacific storm of the year left at least 18 people dead.

• Saturday, January 25th 2020 - 09:57 UTC

  Falklands' January storm causes massive loss of Rockhopper penguin chicks

  

  84% of Rockhopper chicks on Sea Lion Island have died as a result of a storm that hit the Falkland Islands on January 14/15. Strong easterly winds on the island, which lies southeast of East Falklands, launched sea spray on to the colony for more than 48 hours, to deadly effect, said owner Mickey Reeves.

• Monday, January 28th 2019 - 09:33 UTC

  Cuba: Three dead and 170 injured after tornado passage through Havana

  

  At least three people lost their lives and more than 170 were wounded on Sunday night by the onslaught of a tornado in Havana as a result of an extratropical drop from the Gulf of Mexico that transits the territory of the island, local media confirmed.

• Monday, April 30th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Major wind and flash rains storm hits Buenos Aires: two dead and 100.000 homes with no power

  

  A man and his teenage son died with electrocution during a storm that struck Buenos Aires City and the metropolitan area on Sunday dawn and morning. Winds blowing at over 130 kilometers and massive rainfall, 120 millimeters, caused the collapse of roofs and publicity billboards, trees and lamp posts were knocked down, plus extensive flooding and power cuts that affected thousands of clients. An estimated 2.500 people had to be evacuated and even more had to abandon their homes.

• Saturday, January 6th 2018 - 10:01 UTC

  Northeast US and Canada frigid with wind chills reaching negative C 50 degrees

  

  The aftermath of a frigid “bomb cyclone” and polar vortex left much of the northeastern US and Canada frigid on Friday night. Wind chills in one part of the state of New Hampshire were forecast to hit negative 50 degrees Celsius, according to forecasters. New York Times reporters who were sent to Mount Washington in that state said the wind “steals your breath and freezes your eyelashes.”