Important Takeaways:
- Meteorologists predicted a tropical storm could form in an area of high pressure that would push it on the same path as Helene and Milton that struck Florida earlier this month.
- The pressure system could also create a funnel, allowing it to travel up the Eastern Seaboard.
- Meteorologist Michael Lowry told USA Today: ‘Named storms affecting us here in the states in November only happen about once every 15 years on average.
- ‘They’re an uncommon occurrence but when they do strike, they almost invariably strike Florida.’
- While rare, the Sunshine State has seen three hurricanes in November since 2005, with the most recent in 2022
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Important Takeaways:
- Helene’s path of destruction stretched more than 500 miles, from coastal Florida to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
- Short on supplies, power and patience, storm victims who saw the brutal force of Helene upend their lives have emerged to a new week, facing the daunting challenge of rebuilding.
- Some of the roads and bridges they need to do the job aren’t there anymore.
- Electricity could be a week away or longer.
- Emergency services are stretched.
- Communications infrastructure is in shreds.
- North Carolina suffered the highest death toll, at least 42 so far
- At least 25 storm victims also perished in South Carolina, 17 in Georgia, 11 in Florida, four in Tennessee and two in Virginia.
- More than 2 million customers remain without power
- Officials in Buncombe County, North Carolina – where at least 30 people have died – have received about 600 missing persons reports through an online form
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Important Takeaways:
- Hurricane, storm surge and tropical storm watches have been issued for parts of Florida
- Tropical Storm Helene could form later today, and it is forecast to strengthen into a large, major hurricane before it strikes Florida’s Gulf Coast Thursday.
- The hurricane could be both strong and large at landfall with life-threatening storm surge, damaging winds and flooding rain.
- Locally strong winds and heavy rain will push well inland in parts of the South into Friday.
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