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By Jason Hanna, CNN Tropical Depression Mindy was dropping heavy rain on southern Georgia and parts of South Carolina on Thursday morning and could produce scattered flash flooding and a few tornadoes as it pushes to the coast, forecasters said. Mindy, which formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday afternoon and made landfall over

By Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist The first storms since Ida will move through the Northeast into Thursday, bringing the chance for severe weather and possible flash flooding. Flood watches have been issued for over 12 million people just west of New York City, in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York state. A flood watch means

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN California could be dealing with massive wildfires until the end of the year, a top fire official said, warning people to keep their guard up. “This season is far from over,” Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter cautioned Tuesday. “We are on par with where we were last year. That’s sobering and

By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist Hurricane Larry may be well out in the Atlantic, but the dangerous Category 3 hurricane will have impacts in the US later this week that will be felt up and down much of the Eastern Seaboard. “Larry will remain a forceful hurricane that continues to produce significant swells with far-reaching

By Kelly McCleary and Alta Spells, CNN The Dixie Fire in northern California is on its way to becoming the largest wildfire in the state’s history, officials say. It has burned 917,579 acres and was only 59% contained as of Tuesday. Currently, the largest fire by acreage for the state is the August Complex, which

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Some areas of the Northeast hit last week by the immense rains of the remnants of Hurricane Ida will be under a flash flood watch Wednesday. Thunderstorms capable of producing heavy rain are forecast to move into the region Wednesday evening. They could potentially dump 1-2″ of rain, according to the

By Jennifer Gray and Haley Brink, CNN Meteorologists As meteorologists, we are still stunned by what happened in the Northeast last week. The flooding was forecast, but to see New York City underwater was not something anyone could have imagined. “As you see it unfold, you’re just gripped with this growing pit in your stomach

By Madeline Holcombe, Eric Levenson and Jenn Selva, CNN About 14,000 people in one Louisiana parish are without homes after Hurricane Ida damaged or destroyed 75 percent of the structures there, Lafourche Parish President Archie Chaisson said Monday. “We are working feverishly, as hard as we can to get all people what they need to

By Kelly McCleary and Alta Spells, CNN Firefighters in California made significant progress against the Caldor Fire over the weekend, allowing for some evacuation orders in the Lake Tahoe region to be downgraded. But as residents there began to breathe a sigh of relief, three new fires ignited in the state Sunday, according to Cal

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Crews continued their search Saturday for two missing childhood friends whom witnesses say were swept into a New Jersey storm drain when Hurricane Ida’s remnants soaked the Northeast with lethal floodwater that killed at least 50 people across the region. Nidhi Rana, 18, and Ayush Rana, 21, are among the six

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Some of the areas in Louisiana that were hit hardest by Hurricane Ida could be looking at more than three weeks before power is restored, Entergy Louisiana said. They include the parishes of Lafourche, Plaquemines with the exception of Belle Chasse, St. Charles, Terrebonne and part of Jefferson, the utility company

By Jason Hanna and Travis Caldwell, CNN As hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents struggle in sweltering conditions and without power six days after deadly Hurricane Ida struck, some are trying their luck elsewhere. New Orleans on Saturday started a shuttle program for electricity-deprived residents wanting to leave, sending them by charter bus from the

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A mother, father and son died by drowning when the remnants of Hurricane Ida poured catastrophic amounts of rain across the East Coast on Wednesday, leaving at least 50 people dead. Rosa Espinal, 72, and her husband Jose Torres, 71, along with their 38-year-old son Jose Torres died when more than

By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Labor Day is usually the signal that summer is coming to an end, and this summer has been one for the record books. After record drought, wildfires and multiple tropical weather systems making landfall, the United States could use a break — especially people cleaning up from Hurricane Ida. The