September 5, 2008
WiredPRNews.com - Weather News Report. Dallas News Desk — Forecasters see the tropical storm Hanna making its way to the Atlantic coast and also Massachusetts over the weekend. It is expected to be accompanied by strong winds upto 50 mph and also rain, which may go unto 4 or even six inches.
The storm, […]
September 5, 2008
Fort Worth, TX (WiredPRNews.com)—August 29, 2005 was the day that Hurricane Katrina, a category three, pummeled New Orleans and killed over 1,800 people. However, other recent hurricanes in the previous 50 years did not have the death toll anywhere near as high. In fact, most of the named hurricanes that made landfall in the US […]
September 2, 2008
Fort Worth, TX (WiredPRNews.com)—Hurricane Hanna, a category one, located 400 miles southeast of Miami, is projected to move northwest and hit the Atlantic coastline of Florida, Georgia and possibly the Carolinas by Friday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website.
The hurricane has already started to generate dangerous rip currents as far north as […]
September 1, 2008
Fort Worth, TX (WiredPRNews.com)—With Gustav and the three-year anniversary of Katrina in the news, here’s an overview of how hurricanes work and how they are classified.
Hurricanes are circular, low-pressure storm systems that spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and require warm, moist ocean air to fuel their ferocious engines. Classified from one to five by […]
August 31, 2008
Fort Worth, TX (WiredPRNews.com)—In an effort to prevent a repeat of the carnage of Hurricane Katrina three years ago, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans on Sunday as Hurricane Gustav, a category three, headed toward the Louisiana coast.
Many residents left by car over the weekend, while others boarded […]
August 29, 2008
Fort Worth, TX (WiredPRNews.com)—The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association projects that tropical storm Gustav will turn into Hurricane Gustav within hours and hit Louisiana, somewhere between New Orleans and Beaumont, Texas on Labor Day.
As of 5:00 pm CST, tropical storm Gustav was moving northwest at six miles an hour, toward the western end of Cuba. […]
August 27, 2008
Fort Worth, TX (WiredPRNews.com)—Late August and Early September mark the anniversary of some of the most devastating hurricanes to hit the United States.
On August 29, 2005 Katrina, a category three hurricane, hit New Orleans, killing over 1,800 people and causing $81 billion in damage. This devastating storm hit Louisiana with sustained winds of 160 miles […]
August 18, 2008
Northern California (WiredPRNews.com) — A new research study conducted in the mountains of Southern California suggests that the recent warming trend is responsible for the massive dying off and migration of nine different plants from white furs to desert shrubs to higher ground.
Within the past three decades, most of the plants have moved to elevations […]
August 11, 2008
Houston, Texas (WiredPRNews.com) — The top U.S. climate agency made a prediction on Thursday that the Atlantic hurricane season will turn out to be much more active than expected with at least 10 hurricane formations. The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration reported that the 2008 season is expected to give rise to 14-18 storms out […]
August 7, 2008
Brownsville, Texas (WiredPRNews.com) — Tropical Storm Edouard seemed to weaken on Tuesday as it lumbered onto the upper coast of Texas, stalling vacations and soaking beaches but lacking the strength of a hurricane thereby proving that predictions from many forecasters were wrong. Visitors at beaches in the Galveston area, one of the prime regional tourists […]
