Weather

The fifteenth-named storm of the 2020 hurricane season formed Tuesday afternoon off the Eastern seaboard. 

The toll from the Category 4 hurricane rose to 16 deaths Saturday, with more than half of those killed by carbon monoxide poisoning from the unsafe operation of generators.

The first storms swept through the Philadelphia suburbs and northern Delaware before moving into South Jersey.

The hurricane’s top wind speed of 150 mph put it among the strongest systems on record in the U.S.

One of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the U.S., Laura barreled across Louisiana on Thursday, shearing off roofs, killing at least six people.

The South’s Defenders Monument was knocked off its pedestal as the Category 4 monster swept through the southwestern Louisiana parish.

Forecasters expect heavy rain and possibly flash flooding as the remnants of Hurricane Laura pass through the New Jersey region on Saturday. 

Forecasters had warned that the storm surge would be “unsurvivable” and the damage “catastrophic.”

More than half a million people were ordered to flee the Gulf Coast on Tuesday as Laura strengthened into a hurricane.

The last time two storms made landfall in the United States within 24 hours of each other was in 1933.

High winds and heavy rains ravaged portions of Delaware earlier this month. Now the state is offering emergency financial assistance.

A small tornado caused damage in a central New Jersey county Wednesday, the National Weather Service confirmed Thursday.

Residents frustrated with the local government's response want officials to resign for not doing more to speed up response to all the uncollected garbage.

The eleventh-named storm of the 2020 hurricane season formed Friday afternoon off the mid-Atlantic coast.

Tens of thousands of Jersey Shore residents were without power early Wednesday afternoon after potent severe storms lashed the region.