By JENNIFER KAY and FREIDA FRISARO, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Irma gave Florida a coast-to-coast pummeling with winds up to 130 mph Sunday, swamping homes and boats, knocking out power to millions and toppling massive construction cranes over the Miami skyline. The 400-mile-wide (640-kilometer-wide) storm blew ashore in the morning in the mostly cleared-out…
Houston, TX (AP) Officials say rain from Hurricane Harvey could inundate Houston roads and neighborhoods as early as Saturday night. Jeff Lindner, a meteorologist with the Harris County Flood Control District, said Friday that two key reservoirs in the flood control system — at the Addicks and Barker dams — are currently near-empty and are…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) About 50,000 Ameren customers are without power on Sunday following the overnight storms. The storms knocked out power to customers on both sides of the river. Most of the outages are in St. Louis and St. Charles counties. The outage comes after the dangerous heat wave. Saturday hit a record setting…
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Officials are expected to tour flood-stricken neighborhoods in a county north of Chicago following heavy rainfall earlier this week. The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reports that U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider, both Democrats, will join Lake County Board Chair Aaron Lawlor Saturday afternoon. They also are expected to…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis remains under a heat advisory. That National Weather Service has issued the advisory in effect until 7 p.m. Wednesday. As a result, the United Way of Greater St. Louis has opened up cooling centers throughout the region during this extreme heat. These centers offer those without air conditioning…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds has been postponed because of rain. No makeup day has been announced and a doubleheader on Sunday has been ruled out. The Cardinals, winners of nine of their past 11, were set to start Mike Leake (3-1, 1.32 ERA). The Reds, who…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – The National Weather Service is confirming that a tornado hit the community of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, and flipped a mobile home, killing a woman and her 3-year-old daughter. The weather agency said Sunday that a tornado with peak winds of 110 mph traveled for nearly 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) on…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) An ice storm warning remains in effect for the region. This has prompted dozens of school closings for Friday. We have those closures listed below. SCHOOL CLOSINGS: ALEX Recovery School Desloge | CLOSED Abiding Savior Lutheran School | CLOSED Academy at Day Spring | CLOSED Academy of St. Louis – Chesterfield…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The dangerous wintry mix that settled over Missouri during the weekend is gone, but bitter cold on Monday forced dozens of schools to call off classes and made venturing outdoors miserable. Parts of the state awoke to temperatures below zero Monday morning, and readings most everywhere else were in single digits.…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The nation’s most advanced weather satellite ever awaits a sunset liftoff. NASA is launching the $1 billion GOES-R satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. An unmanned Atlas rocket is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 5:42 p.m. Saturday. The satellite will aim for a 22,300-mile-high…