Important Takeaways:
- The nation’s disaster agency is being stretched to the limit by a spate of storms and wildfires so far in 2024, and the busiest time of year for the Federal Emergency Management Agency is just beginning.
- FEMA issued 100 disaster and emergency declarations — for 58 severe storms and flooding events and 42 fires — through the first week of August, according to the agency’s database. That is nearly as many as all of last year (114) and well past the 90 declarations of disasters and fire emergencies the agency issued in 2022.
- It is still short of the all-time high of 315 declarations issued by FEMA in 2020, but with the expected active hurricane season ahead and the threat of wildfires continuing in the West, that record isn’t out of reach.
- The flurry of emergency responses comes as FEMA shifts into what is known as “immediate needs funding” mode, in which new obligations not necessary for lifesaving and life-sustaining activities will be paused, the agency announced on Aug. 7.
- And last week the Department of Energy announced it will invest $2.2 billion in projects to make the electrical grid more resilient.
- Meantime, FEMA officials are anxiously waiting for Congress to return in September and consider providing additional disaster aid, including $9 billion for FEMA that was part of an administration request last October.
- FEMA has said the deficit in its disaster relief fund could reach $6 billion by Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year.
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Important Takeaways:
- Category 6 hurricanes would describe storms with wind speeds of at least 192 mph.
- Such a storm would be a “major disaster” if it made landfall over a populated area.
- The researchers recommend adding a Category 6 to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which currently ranks powerful tropical storms based on wind speed starting at Category 1 (74 to 95 mph) up to Category 5 (157 mph or higher).
- The “or higher” for Category 5 storms is where scientists take issue.
- To remedy this, authors Michael Wehner and James Kossin, propose adding another category. Category 6 would refer to hurricanes with sustained wind speeds of at least 192 mph — about the speed that NASCAR drivers go.
- A strong hurricane with 192 mph winds — which would qualify as a Category 6 — isn’t unheard of. In fact, since 2013, five storms have reached or surpassed that, including Hurricane Patricia, Typhoon Haiyan, and Typhoon Meranti, the researchers reported.
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Important Takeaways:
- The weather in the new year will kick off on an active note as a series of storms will travel from coast to coast, bringing heavy rain, snow and thunderstorms over the 10 days. The West will bear the brunt of each storm first, beginning with one arriving early this week, warn AccuWeather meteorologists.
- Packing flooding downpours, mountain snow and a continuation of coastal threats seen last week, the first in the “parade of storms” arrived along the Pacific Northwest coast south to Northern California on Tuesday. Rain and snow will continue to spread south through the Golden State into Wednesday.
- Additional storms will then follow into this weekend and the middle of next week. It isn’t all bad news despite travelers’ concerns with the storms. “This is very much good news for ski resorts across the Sierra Nevada range,” said AccuWeather Meteorologist Brandon Buckingham.
- “As the storm shifts inland, rain and mountain snow are expected to spread into Nevada and the Four Corners region (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah) between Wednesday night and Thursday,” added Buckingham. “Beyond that, the next phase of the storm will take shape across the southern Plains and then South later in the week.”
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Important Takeaways:
- At least two people are killed as storms pummel the East Coast – leaving 44 people trapped under fallen power lines in Maryland and almost 1 MILLION without electricity from Georgia to Pennsylvania
- Two people have been killed and 900,000 left without power after storms hit a swathe of the Eastern Seaboard.
- In Westminster, just outside Baltimore, 33 adults and 14 children were trapped by power cables which were downed in fierce winds. Rescue personnel were shutting the live cables off on Monday night and freeing the entangled 34 cars caught up in the web of wires.
- Footage shared on social media showed scenes of devastation from Atlanta, Georgia up to New York.
- Flights across the entire eastern United States were delayed or cancelled, with some of the busiest airports in the country affected – among them Atlanta, Philadelphia, Charlotte, JFK and Newark.
- By the end of Monday, almost 8,500 flights within, into or out of the United States had been delayed, and 1,735 canceled.
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Luke 21:25 ““And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves
Important Takeaways:
- Strong tornadoes, destructive hail possible as severe storms threaten central, southern Plains
- The multiday severe weather threat continues Thursday across the central and southern Plains, where thunderstorms packing strong tornadoes and destructive hail are possible during the afternoon and evening.
- The Denver metro was pounded by hail on Wednesday amid severe storms that prompted the area’s first Tornado Watch in nearly two years.
- On Thursday, the threat of severe storms shifts a bit farther east in the Plains, extending from the Dakotas to North Texas, with a separate area of strong thunderstorms expected along the Gulf Coast and into Florida. This places more than 25 million people at risk of dangerous weather.
- The most intense storms will likely be centered over portions of western and central Kansas, including Wichita, and southward into central Oklahoma, including Oklahoma City and Tulsa, shaded in the darkest red on the map below.
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Luke 21:25 ““And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves
Important Takeaways:
- At least 32 dead after major storm unleashed more than 60 tornadoes across the South and Midwest: Couple’s bodies found inside their vehicle after tornado ‘flattened’ an Indiana campground
- Tornadoes in 11 states killed at least 32 people, destroyed homes and businesses
- The bodies of Brett Kincaid, 53, and Wendy Kincaid, 47, of Rossville, Indiana, were found at McCormick’s Creek State Park where they were camping
- Deaths also included three others in Indiana, nine in one Tennessee county, four in Illinois, and at least 13 in Tennessee, as well as Alabama and Mississippi
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Luke 21:25-26 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Important Takeaways:
- Storm-pummeled California rushes to clean up and start repairs ahead of expected rain resumption
- Storm-ravaged California scrambled to clean up and repair widespread damage… as the lashing rain eased in many areas
- Another powerful weather front was expected to hit the state Friday.
- At least 17 people have died in the storms battering the state. The figure is likely to rise, Gov. Gavin Newsom said
- More than half of California’s 58 counties were declared disaster areas, the governor said.
- Repairing the damage may cost more than $1 billion, said Adam Smith, a disaster expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Los Angeles Times reported.
- Crews worked to reopen major highways that were closed by rockslides, swamped by flooding or smothered with mud while more than 10,000 people who were ordered out of seaside towns on the central coast were allowed to return home.
- Despite the rain, most of the state remained in extreme or severe drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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Luke 21:25-26 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Important Takeaways:
- As another powerful storm walloped California, a 5-year-old boy was swept away by floodwaters Monday on the state’s central coast and an entire seaside community… was ordered to evacuate
- Tens of thousands of people remained without power, and some schools closed for the day. Streets and highways transformed into gushing rivers, trees toppled, mud slid and motorists growled as they hit roadblocks caused by fallen debris.
- The death toll…climbed from 12 to 14 on Monday, after two people were killed by falling trees, state officials said.
- In Los Angeles, a sinkhole swallowed two cars in the Chatsworth area
- Up the coast, evacuation orders were issued in Santa Cruz County for about 32,000 residents living near rain-swollen rivers and creeks
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- Hurricane Season Has Been Unusually Quiet—But Forecasters Are Watching A Potential Cyclone
- The weather system has a 50% chance of turning into a tropical cyclone—a category that includes tropical depressions, storms and hurricanes—in the next two days, and an 80% chance of developing over the next five days, the NHC said in a Monday outlook.
- The system is currently “producing a large area of disorganized cloudiness and showers,” according to the NHC, and it’s expected to gradually develop this week as it moves toward the Caribbean at a speed of five to 10 miles per hour.
- If the disturbance eventually turns into a tropical storm, it’ll be the first since early July and the fourth this year, earning the name Tropical Storm Danielle (tropical storms need wind speeds of 39 to 73 miles per hour, compared to milder tropical depressions).
- The NHC is also tracking three other disturbances in the Atlantic and Caribbean, including systems near West Africa, Bermuda and Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, but forecasters give them a less-than-50% chance of developing into cyclones in five days.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- Hurricane season on the verge of rarely seen August without a named storm
- This could be just the third August since 1961, and the first August since 1997, without a named storm, according to AccuWeather, the independent forecasting service.
- This season’s calm follows 2021, the third-most active season with 21 named storms, and 2020, the most active season with 30 named storms. And this year was the first time in seven years there wasn’t a named storm before the June 1 start of hurricane season.
- Dry air, Saharan dust and wind shear are the main reasons no named storms have developed recently
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