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Many residents of Mendenhall Valley were unable to return home as the nearby Mendenhall River surged with glacial lake water and flooded their neighborhoods.
An instructor at Skydive Perris in Riverside County, California, died after encountering a "dust devil" which sent her and a student crashing to the ground in what many described as a "freak accident."
Experts at Colorado State University have slightly lowered the forecast for the remainder of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, but their outlook still calls for a much busier-than-average season.
A terrifying situation unfolded off the coast of Florida over the weekend when winds from then-Hurricane Debby tore the sail off a boat, paralyzing the vessel in rough seas and prompting a rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard.
Catfish were spotted swimming along residential Florida driveways and yards ahead of Debby's landfall as a Category 1 hurricane.
The center of Tropical Storm Debby is located near Savannah, Georgia, but is forecast to move over the warm Atlantic waters later Tuesday.
Tropical Storm Debby may still be wreaking havoc on the Southeast, but tens of millions of people in the Northeast, including those in New York City and Philadelphia, face a significant flood threat as the deadly storm's tropical moisture spreads up the East Coast of the U.S.
Officials with the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District said that at least four structures were damaged, and two homes were destroyed during the Edgehill Fire on Monday. Gusty winds and temperatures above 100 degrees helped the fire spread on the Little Mountain.
Steering currents between the deep tropics and the mid-latitudes can become weak and variable around 30 degrees north latitude. Recent cyclones, such as Debby in 2024, Florence in 2018, Harvey in 2017, and Fay in 2008, all became stationary or stalled within a few hundred miles of the latitude.
A representative for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection says that they were alerted to more than two dozen packages of cocaine that washed ashore the Florida Keys during Debby. The agency estimates the drugs have a street value of over one million dollars.