Thousands of tourists and residents have fled from the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico after hurricane Rina, downgraded to a tropical storm, churned on its projected path.
Thousands of tourists and residents have fled from the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico after hurricane Rina, downgraded to a tropical storm, churned on its projected path.
Hurricane Rina's projected path has forced numerous flight cancellations and diverted nearly a dozen cruise ships.
The 15th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) ended ahead of schedule due to the predicted path of Hurricane Rina.
Hurricane Rina's projected path has caused several cruise ships to change their course and prompted most airlines to waive change fees on travel between the U.S. and Mexico's resort-heavy Yucatan Peninsula.
Hurricane Rina headed for Mexico's Yucatan peninsula on Wednesday with winds just shy of major hurricane strength, threatening beach resorts but steering clear of oil platforms.
Hurricane Rina is currently a category 2 storm, but it will intensify to category 3 Wednesday as it heads towards Cancun, Mexico. With winds currently breaking 110 miles per hour, Rina's projected path takes it over the Yucatan state, where residents have stocked up on supplies and close resort towns and fishing villages.
Hurricane Rina is on a projected path that takes it over the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula toward popular beach resorts like Cancun.
Hurricane Rina gained strength overnight, becoming a category 2 storm and churning through the Caribbean on its path to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, the National Hurricane Center reported.
Hurricane Irene's impact accounted for about $500 million in the insurance company's third-quarter catastrophe losses.
Hurricane Jova made landfall along Mexico's western coast early Wednesday with sustained winds of 100 miles per hour, which decreased to 75 miles per hour as the storm moved inland.
As Hurricane Jova followed a path toward Mexico's Pacific Coast on Tuesday, hotels prepared for the storm while tourists sought shelter.
Hurricane Jova is set to hit the Mexican resort town of Barra de Navidad by Tuesday morning.
Two worsening tropical storms threaten to hit Mexico's Pacific coast early next week, while a category one hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean is expected to fizzle out before it hits the east coast.
Tropical Storm Ophelia (formerly Hurricane Ophelia) hit Newfoundland, Canada on Monday, causing some evacuations in the small town of Belleoram.
Hurricane Ophelia became a major hurricane on Friday as it tracked on a projected path just east of Bermuda on its way toward Newfoundland.
Hurricane Ophelia (formerly Tropical Storm Ophelia) is the latest hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic season. On its projected path, the storm may make landfall in Newfoundland, Canada.
Tropical Storm Ophelia is expected to become a hurricane late Friday as it heads on its projected path toward Bermuda an on to Newfoundland, Canada.
The security camera videos, recorded from three different camera angles, show the panicking tourists as the pieces of the monument were coming down from the top of the structure.
With less than six days until a possible U.S. Government shutdown, considerable differences remain between Democratic and Republican proposals to fund disaster relief. The GOP wants any Hurricane Irene disaster relief funds to be offset by cuts to other programs. Democrats say doing so would hold disaster victims hostage to partisan politics.
Hurricane Hilary 2011 will likely weaken next week from its current Category 3 strength, but the storm may turn into central or northern California before it's done, ultimately bringing needed rain to the Southwest, including Texas.
Typhoon Roke is currently pounding central Japan, causing massive blackouts, flooding and at least three deaths.
