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First hurricane of 2020 Atlantic season prompts flood warningsCaribbean storm dwindles but Hawaii also awaiting hurricaneHurricane Hanna made landfall on Texas’ Padre Island on Saturday afternoon, with maximum winds of 90mph, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in an early evening update. Related: 'A summer unlike any other': heatwaves and Covid-19 are a deadly combination Continue reading...

Blizzard dumps nearly 80cm of snow on Canadian city of St John’s as government says military reserves may be called upCanada’s federal government will help Newfoundland on the Atlantic coast dig itself out in the wake of a massive winter blizzard that buried cars and left thousands without power.The storm on Friday and Saturday dumped as much as 76.2cm (30 inches) of snow on...

The storm has been downgraded to category 4, but is still described as being ‘extremely dangerous’Hurricane Dorian: five dead and 13,000 houses severely damaged in Bahamas – live updatesAs Hurricane Dorian continued to pummel the northern Bahamas on Monday, the south-eastern United States was bracing for the impending storm.Though the slow-moving, powerful storm was downgraded from a category 5 to a category 4 hurricane,...