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It’s “bring your raincoat to work” week – at least, it should be, according to the National Weather Service in Spokane.

Communities across the Caribbean on Saturday were continuing to pick up the pieces left by the devastating and deadly former Hurricane Melissa, which walloped Jamaica as one of the strongest hurricanes to make landfall in Atlantic history and brought catastrophic flooding to several islands in the region.

Two people died in flooded basements on Oct. 30 after heavy rainfall in parts of New York City inundated streets and caused transit delays, authorities said.

Hurricane Melissa’s confirmed death toll climbed to 44 on Thursday, according to official reports, after wreaking destruction across much of the northern Caribbean and picking up speed as it headed toward Bermuda.

Hurricane Melissa pulled away from Cuba on Wednesday morning, leaving a trail of devastation that stretched through Cuba’s second most populous region and Jamaica, where it was the strongest storm to ever strike the island nation. Next in its sights is the Bahamas. The storm has a confirmed death toll of at least 27, mostly in Haiti, where flash flooding overtopped a river and submerged a ...

Hurricane Melissa spun into a Category 5 monster on Monday, churning toward Jamaica with what will likely be the most powerful winds ever recorded on the Caribbean island.

Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a 140 mph Category 4 storm early Sunday morning and continues on its path toward Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas. “Tropical storm conditions are likely occurring in Jamaica, with hurricane conditions expected to begin by Monday,” the National Hurricane Center said in its 2 p.m. Sunday advisory. As for the 2 p.m. advisory ... Where’s Melissa and where’s Melissa ...

Tropical Storm Melissa is effectively parked in the central Caribbean, dumping devastating amounts of rain on Haiti and Jamaica that has already claimed at least three lives and destroyed one bridge. And more rain is on the way. The National Hurricane Center doesn’t expect Melissa to pick up the pace for days. Over the weekend, the storm is expected to creep west over some of the hottest ...

Two earthquakes were recorded within hours of each other near Marion, North Carolina, and witnesses report they felt shaking miles away, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quakes registered as a 2.2 around 1:20 a.m. and a 2.1 around 6:35 a.m., and both were centered about two miles north, northwest of the popular tourist town in McDowell County. Witnesses mostly reported Category III ...

The cool beginning to Fall for the Spokane region is about to get cooler with a band of rainstorms that likely will hit Friday and continue into early next week. 

After a short absence, climate troublemaker La Niña is back, and forecasters say it could have a big impact on the winter weather outlook.

The National Hurricane Center on Monday said a Caribbean system has a high chance to form into Tropical Storm Melissa this week with some forecast paths having it turn north and threaten landfall.

Thousands of Alaskans won’t be able to return home for at least 18 months after Typhoon Halong slammed remote villages along the state’s western coast last weekend, destroying the area’s infrastructure, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy warned in a Friday letter to President Donald Trump.

Much of the southern half of the United States is likely to see a warmer, drier winter than usual, while the Northwest could be cooler and wetter, according to a preview released this past week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center.

There are two disturbances in the Atlantic basin, one of which could become the next named storm of the season in the Caribbean in the next week or so. The National Hurricane Center currently gives both disturbances a low chance of developing anytime soon. As of 2 p.m. Eastern time Friday, the disturbance nearest to the Caribbean had no chance of strengthening into a tropical depression or ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For decades, state and federal officials have been warning about the kind of catastrophic damage wrought by the storm that hit Western Alaska over the weekend. But those predictions, along with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for mitigation efforts, were not enough to prevent dozens of homes from floating away when struck with the remnants of Typhoon ...

The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday continued to track Tropical Storm Lorenzo, although it remained no threat to land.