Best Read Windstorm Headlines
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#1 Alaska Storm Damage So Bad Many Evacuees Won’t Go Home for at Least 18 Months
Oct 20 2025 // Damage to remote Alaska villages hammered by flooding last weekend is so extreme that many of the more than 2,000 people displaced won’t be able to return to their homes for at least 18 months, Gov. Mike Dunleavy...
#2 Coastal Communities Restoring Natural Defenses Against Storm Surges, Rising Seas
Aug 19 2025 // In San Francisco Bay, salt ponds created more than a century ago are reverting to marshland. Along the New York and New Jersey coasts, beaches ravaged by Superstorm Sandy underwent extensive restoration. In Alabama, a...
#3 After Fearsome Dust Storm Rips Phoenix Area, Trees Cleaned up And Power Restored
Aug 29 2025 // Crews cleaned up downed trees and got electricity mostly restored for thousands of people this week after a powerful dust storm roared through the Phoenix area. The wall of dust towering hundreds of feet high dwarfed the...
#4 Fires, Storms and Blazing Heat Forecast for Western US
Aug 11 2025 // Fires, storms and the potential for near-record high temperatures across the western US are in the offing for the coming week. The Gifford Fire, about 125 miles (201 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles, had burned 114,621...
#5 What to Know About Massive Dust Storms Called Haboobs in Southwest
Sep 2 2025 // Massive walls of dust and debris called haboobs that roll through the U.S. Southwest can be awe-inspiring and terrifying, especially for motorists caught in their path. Thunderstorms spawn the phenomenon and can create a...
#6 Los Angeles Braces for Drenching Storms, Potential Flooding
Nov 13 2025 // California is set to be drenched in coming days as heavy rain and snowstorms uncoil off the Pacific Ocean, potentially bringing Los Angeles a month’s worth of rain and prompting evacuation warnings in areas burned by...
#7 Explorers Discover Wreckage of Old Cargo Ship That Sank in Lake Superior Storm
Mar 14 2025 // Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships to traverse the...
#8 With Storms, Flooding and Potential FEMA Cuts, Parametric Flood Is on the Rise
Sep 4 2025 // With inland flooding, storm surge losses and government cutbacks on the rise, parametric flood insurance may finally be having a moment in Florida and elsewhere in the Southeast. “It’s starting to get some...
#9 Storm Ragasa Nears Vietnam After Soaking Southern China
Sep 25 2025 // Tropical Storm Ragasa is moving toward northern Vietnam, threatening to drench the capital of Hanoi with heavy rain, after weakening overnight as the system tracked across southern China. The storm was near Beihai, packing...
#10 AccuWeather: Warm Gulf Water Could Fuel Storm Intensification in September
Sep 4 2025 // The Gulf Coast has avoided any major tropical storms so far this hurricane season, but the Gulf’s luck could soon change, AccuWeather hurricane experts say. Water temperatures in the Gulf are exceptionally warm,...
#11 Jamaica to Get 2nd Parametric Insurance Payout for Excess Rainfall From Storm Melissa
Nov 7 2025 // The Caribbean parametric insurer, CCRIF SPC, announced it will make a second payout of US$21.1 million to the government of Jamaica – a policy triggered by excess rainfall from Hurricane Melissa. This payout follows the...
#12 Wisconsin Severe Storms Cause Flooding, Knock Out Power
Aug 12 2025 // Flash flooding canceled the final day of the Wisconsin State Fair on Sunday as continued heavy rainfall in half a dozen Midwest states forced motorists to abandon their vehicles, cut power to thousands of households and...
#13 Hong Kong Braces for Twin Storms as Forecasters Predict Super Typhoon
Sep 19 2025 // Hong Kong is facing a period of heavy rain and strong winds as two storms brew in warm tropical waters, with one system forecast to intensify into a super typhoon next week. A tropical depression is currently spinning in...
#14 Vietnam Flood Deaths Rise as New Storm Tracks Toward Coast
Nov 3 2025 // The death toll in Vietnam from last week’s record-breaking downpours has climbed to 37 as another powerful storm bears down on the country’s coast and floodwaters rise again in some tourism hubs. The national...
#15 Why Some Storms Brew to Extreme Dimensions in the Middle of America
Apr 10 2025 // A powerful storm system that stalled over states from Texas to Ohio for several days in early April 2025 wreaked havoc across the region, with deadly tornadoes, mudslides and flooding as rivers rose. More than a foot of...
#16 More Tornadoes Plow Through Central US, Leaving Thousands Without Power
May 20 2025 // More tornadoes plowed through the central U.S. on Monday and thousands were without power as people from Texas to Kentucky continued to clean up from days of severe weather that killed more than two dozen people and...
#17 Missouri Special Session to Include Discussion on Aid for Tornado Victims
May 29 2025 // Missouri lawmakers are to kick off a special session Monday to consider aid for tornado victims and a package of financial incentives aimed at keeping the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals from leaving the state for new or...
#18 Storms in Nebraska Kill 1, Displace Hundreds of Inmates
Aug 11 2025 // Strong storms before dawn Saturday in eastern Nebraska killed one person and seriously injured another in a state park and displaced hundreds of inmates after two prison housing units were damaged, officials said, even as...
#19 Storm System Threatens Central and Southern US With Hail and Damaging Winds
Oct 16 2025 // As many as 22 states face the risk for severe thunderstorms, hail and damaging wind gusts over the next several days, meteorologists say. A front over the Central/Southern Rockies is expected to move northeastward,...
#20 Update: Hurricane Melissa Bears Down on Jamaica as Category 5 Storm
Oct 28 2025 // Hurricane Melissa is churning toward Jamaica as the island’s worst-ever storm, with high winds and flooding rains already pummeling coastal areas in the hours before landfall. Melissa’s top winds reached 185...
