Heavy wind and rain pelted parts of eastern Nebraska early Tuesday, May 21, as a severe thunderstorm was forecast.
Footage posted by the National Weather Service in Hastings shows conditions on Tuesday morning.
A potentially “destructive” storm in the region would contain wind gusts up to 80 mph, the weather service said.
According local media, there was some flash flooding in Omaha. Credit: NWS Hastings via Storyful
It has been a chilly and wet start to summer so far
Tourists have vanished on the Greek islands of Samos, Symi, Crete, Amorgos and Corfu
The geological record of the region indicates on average, these mega earthquake and tsunami events happen every 500 years.
The extreme weather conditions across the Mediterranean have arrived earlier than usual this year, with heatwaves in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey and severe flooding in Mallorca. And some weather experts say this could be the start of a sweltering summer ahead.
The yellow weather warning will come into place at 11am this morning
Romance can be challenging, but few suitors have shown the determination and courage of Jacob, a three-legged lion.
An oil spill affecting Singapore has spread beyond a luxury beach resort to a marine reserve and other parts of the island as the authorities intensify cleanup efforts.
“I was just crying. I was more happy, I was alive,” a rider said after being taken off the ride and safely returned to the ground
A long-lasting and expansive heat wave is set to grip the Midwest and Northeast with record-breaking high temperatures this week, ushering in the start of summer with this year’s most significant heat event yet.
In the Libyan village of Kabaw in the Nafusa Mountains, M'hamed Maakaf waters an ailing fig tree as climate change pushes villagers to forsake lands and livestock.Driven out by increasing water stress, local villagers and their livestock have been gradually moving out of the Nafusa Mountains and surrounding plains.
Michael Holmes reports on the extreme weather conditions across the globe, from droughts to torrential rain.
Unease and anger are rising over proposals to build country’s first facility on Kilifi coast, home to white sand beaches, coral reefs and mangrove swamps
STORY: :: Oil covers Singapore's beaches after a spill from a nearby shipping terminal:: June 15, 2024:: The oil spread after a Netherlands-flagged dredger struck a stationary Singapore-flagged bunker vesselThe oil-stained waters and sand of Tanjong Beach were cordoned off from visitors. An advisory from Sentosa said the waters of Tanjong, Palawan and Siloso beaches would be closed for cleaning and swimming while sea activities were not allowed.The oil spill had spread from Pasir Panjang Terminal, less than 6 miles (10 km) from the island popular with tourists and locals, after a Netherlands-flagged dredger struck a stationary Singapore-flagged bunker vessel on Friday (June 14) afternoon.Singapore's port authority said in a statement on Friday evening some oil from the damaged cargo tank on the bunker vessel had spilled into the water and "the affected cargo tank has been isolated and the spill contained".
Raw sewage, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, garbage piled high in the streets. As the heat of summer gathers, hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are contending with a crisis in sanitation - as well as hunger and the frequent need to move from one place to another in the search for safety from air strikes and fighting.
Story at a glance When spring comes and daylight hours grow longer, Greg Flick, a high school science teacher in Syracuse, N.Y., starts to feel depressed. “I can appreciate the beauty of it and the temperatures aren’t bad, but I know what’s coming,” said Flick who suffers from summer seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a…
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Record-breaking high temperatures are likely across the country.
War, climate change and man-made shortages have brought Sudan -- a nation already facing a litany of horrors -- to the shores of a water crisis.Now, from the western deserts of Darfur, through the fertile Nile Valley and all the way to the Red Sea coast, a water crisis has hit 48 million war-weary Sudanese who the US ambassador to the United Nations on Friday said are already facing "the largest humanitarian crisis on the face of the planet."
The royal family were struck by heavy rain on arrival at the parade in London on June 15
CBC North will have a live radio special on the Fort Good Hope evacuation from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. MT on Sunday. The special will be broadcast in English and Dene Kǝdǝ́. Tune in online at CBC Listen or on CBC Radio One in N.W.T.Firefighters in Fort Good Hope took advantage of lighter winds Sunday to slow the advance of a wildfire that reached the edge of the community on Saturday. An evacuation order remains in effect for Fort Good Hope..Mike Westwick, the territory's fire information officer, told
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