Spanish floods kill 95 as year of rain falls in a day in Valencia
LA ALCUDIA, Spain — At least 95 people have been killed in possibly the deadliest flooding to hit Spain in its modern history after torrential rain battered the eastern region…
Unstable weather, dangerous seas and life-threatening rip currents ahead
SAN JUAN — A series of mid-to-upper level troughs and above-normal moisture from a nearly stationary front will create ideal conditions for thunderstorm development over the next few days, with the most intense…
Heavy rains expected across the USVI and Puerto Rico starting soon
SAN JUAN — As model guidance has consistently indicated, we are now experiencing a transition into a wetter and more unstable weather pattern, evident in today’s shower and thunderstorm activity,…
System in the Caribbean Sea has a chance of development
MIAMI — A low pressure system in the southwestern Caribbean Sea is likely to develop in a few days, according to the National Hurricane Center's latest advisory. The system currently has…
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Sweeping blackouts in Cuba raise the question: Why has the island’s solar buildout been so slow?
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s large-scale blackouts that left 10 million people without power this month may not have happened if the government had built out more solar power to boost its failing…
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Cuba fights to come back from a nationwide blackout, then a storm that killed 7
HAVANA (AP) — A small town in Cuba was recovering Tuesday from flooding that killed at least seven people after Oscar crossed the island’s eastern coast as a tropical storm with winds and heavy…
Cubans struggle with an extended power outage and a new tropical storm
HAVANA (AP) — Many Cubans waited in anguish and some took to the streets in protest as widespread blackouts stretched into their third day. Their concerns were heightened as a…
Oscar brings winds, heavy rains to eastern Cuba after striking the Bahamas
HAVANA — Tropical Storm Oscar brought heavy rains and winds to Cuba, an island already beleaguered by a massive power outage, late Sunday after brushing the Bahamas. It made landfall…
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Firefighters work to extinguish blaze at Anguilla landfill
FREDERIKSTED — A large plume of smoke could be seen rising into the St. Croix sky for much of Sunday, another telltale sign that the ever-full Anguilla Landfill was on…
Hurricane Oscar makes landfall in the Bahamas, heads towards Cuba
NASSAU — Hurricane Oscar made landfall early today in the southeastern Bahamas and was heading towards Cuba. Oscar, which the hurricane center characterized as "very small," is the 15th named…