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New tropical disturbance threatens Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico

As a tropical activity in the Atlantic Ocean Ocean As the weather calms down, attention shifts back to the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, where there are increasing signs of atmospheric conditions favorable for the development of the next named storm possibly sometime next week.

The National Hurricane Center is now officially monitoring the area for tropical development, which puts the chance of development within the next seven days at low. Further development could occur after seven days, according to the FOX Forecast Center.

Area to view in the Caribbean

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Extreme weather risk hits Midwest

Thunderstorms capable of producing high winds and isolated large hail are possible Wednesday across parts of the eastern Dakotas and Minnesota, south into the mid-Missouri Valley. A marginal severe threat is also possible across parts of the central and southern Plains.

A look at the threat of a major storm in the Midwest on Wednesday.

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Watch: Daredevil Boater Records Historic Storm Hitting North Carolina Coast

A powerful storm system moved across the coast North Carolina on Monday, with heavy showers and strong winds to wind.

According to the National Weather Service, the historic weather phenomenon resulted in an astonishing 18 inches of snowfall. rainfall which accumulates in just 12 hours in Carolina Beach, Southport and Boiling Spring Lakes. The extreme precipitationa once-in-a-thousand-year event that led to widespread and damaging flood.

Eitan Feldstein, who sailed from Cape Canaveral to Chesapeake Bay, captured the storm’s intensity on video. Due to the extreme weather conditions, his boat was forced to seek shelter in Carolina Beach.

“We got into this by accident, unfortunately,” Feldstein said. “The storm was much stronger than we expected.”

Have you seen it?

Stargazers in the US were treated to a multifaceted celestial spectacle on Tuesday evening as a partial lunar eclipse and a full supermoon appeared in the night sky.

The Moon not only brighter but also larger as it neared perigee, its closest point to Earth. At closest approach in October, the moon will be more than 222,000 miles from the planet.

As the Earth passed between the Sun and the Moon, a shadow was temporarily cast on our natural satellite, but the event was not as breathtaking as the total solar eclipse that millions of people saw earlier this year.

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