This year's hurricane season is expected to be a busy one, with more than usual storms being named, according to government forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA says the season, which begins on …
…appealed to property owners to prepare themselves for the upcoming hurricane season, which is expected to be a near-average year. Mr. Potter, who also serves as the territory's commissioner of Insurance, encouraged homeowners to s…
…with a 60% formation chance and another near Cabo Verde—while Hurricane Erin, a large Category 3 storm, generates dangerous surf from the Bahamas to Atlantic Canada.
VITEMA and FEMA concluded a two-week Capstone Exercise focused on hurricane preparedness, testing unified command strategies, emergency response, and critical services coordination through a simulated Category 3 storm impacting al…
…as it moves over the northeastern Caribbean, and the National Hurricane Center has placed Puerto Rico under a hurricane watch even as the USVI and PR remain under a tropical storm warning. "A Tropical Storm Warning remains in effe…
Hurricane Isaias, a system that once struggled to build its core to become a formidable storm, has done just that within the last 24 hours — strengthening into a tropical storm as it moved away from the USVI and Puerto Rico, and a…
After Hurricane Katrina, the impact of natural disasters on communities of color became the leading concentration of research for Howard University Associate Professor Terri Adams-Fuller, Ph.D., and four student research assistant…
…Senate President Myron Jackson, hosted the Anniversary Observance of Hurricane Irma at the Capitol Building on Wednesday, according to a release the Legislature issued yesterday. “We are so blessed as a community that despite Hurr…
…and the atmosphere are conspiring to produce a less active Atlantic hurricane season than initially predicted in May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) made known in a recent press release, even as it and …
ST. CROIX -- At the dawn of a new hurricane season, a nonprofit organization has released two reports assessing the impact of the last two major hurricanes on St. Croix – a step taken in lieu of comparable data from the government…
…query about his administration's preparedness for the upcoming 2018 hurricane season, predicted to be an above average year by the Colorado State University, responded by stating that outside of standard operation preparations -- …
…and resiliency efforts in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The VI Hurricane and Resiliency Advisory Group, under the Office of the Governor, includes local officials and community members, as well …
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