By PHILIP MARCELO and CATHERINE PERLOFF , The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Bitter cold is setting in after a major winter storm blanketed a wide swath of the country in snow, sleet and rain this weekend, creating dangerously icy conditions that promise to complicate cleanup efforts and make travel challenging on Martin Luther King…
St. Louis (KTRS) More winter weather could be heading for the St. Louis area. The National Weather Service reports that rain and snow is expected to begin on Friday and continue through the weekend. Accumulations depend on the weather system. This comes after last weekend’s major winter storm, which brought about a foot of snow…
By STACEY PLAISANCE and KEVIN McGILL , Associated Press GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Tropical Storm Gordon never became a hurricane but it was deadly all the same, killing a child by blowing a tree onto a mobile home as it made landfall late Tuesday just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border. The National Hurricane Center said…
By STACEY PLAISANCE and KEVIN McGILL , Associated Press GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Residents along the Gulf Coast prepared Tuesday for a sudden increase in heavy rain and winds from quick moving Tropical Storm Gordon, which forecasters said could strengthen and become the second hurricane to hit the region in less than a year. The…
By JENNIFER KAY , Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Coastal residents from Florida to Louisiana hustled to prepare for a deluge as Tropical Storm Gordon grew stronger on a path to hit the central U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane Tuesday night. Boaters evacuated to safe harbors, motorists left barrier islands and homeowners…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The dangerous heat continues in the St. Louis area with thousands still without power following the powerful storms Thursday night. St. Louis County has set up a 24 hour cooling center at the North County Recreation Complex at 2577 Redman Avenue (63136). It will remain operational around the clock as long…
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Forecasters say Subtropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2018 hurricane season, has recently turned more north-northwestward with no change in strength as it lumbers toward the northern Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Alberto was centered at 5 p.m. EDT Sunday afternoon about 165…
MIAMI (AP) —Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has declared a state of emergency for several counties ahead of Subtropical Storm Alberto. The order effective at 6 a.m. Sunday covers 40 counties across the southern portion of the state. The National Hurricane Center on Saturday issued a tropical storm warning for Alabama’s coast, saying tropical storm conditions…
By JEFF MARTIN and JAY REEVES, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The South awoke on Wednesday to a two-part Arctic mess. First came a thin blanket of snow and ice, and then came the below-zero wind chills. The snowfall sabotaged morning rush hour even before it began, sending cars crashing into each other on major thoroughfares…
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — A storm that slammed a California coastal community is over. The search for its victims is not. Authorities in Santa Barbara County were still trying to reach new areas and dig into the destruction to find dead, injured or trapped people after a powerful…