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- In just over 12 hours, Hurricane Helene transformed from a Category 1 to a Category 4 hurricane — the strongest ever to hit the Big Bend coast of Florida.
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4 hours ago · It was strong, with winds reaching 140 mph (225 kph) when it made landfall late Thursday, creating widespread storm surge. It carried heavy rains. And it was fast, speeding north at up to 24 mph (39 kph) offshore and 30 mph (48 kph) inland. He compared the geographic scale of Helene’s destruction to 1972’s Hurricane Agnes, 1989’s ...
18 hours ago · Hurricane Helene was big, strong and fast, making it a near-perfect storm to bring widespread death and destruction to the American South By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press September 29, 2024, 10:12 AM
Hurricane Helene (/ hɛlˈiːn / hehl-EEN) [1] was a large, destructive, and fast-moving tropical cyclone that was the strongest to strike the Big Bend region of Florida on record. The eighth named storm, fifth hurricane, and second major hurricane [nb 1] of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, Helene developed from a broad area of low pressure ...
2 days ago · In just over 12 hours, Hurricane Helene transformed from a Category 1 to a Category 4 hurricane — the strongest ever to hit the Big Bend coast of Florida. Judson Jones, a meteorologist and ...
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2 days ago · Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he thinks Hurricane Helene inflicted more damage than Hurricane Idalia in 2023, which at the time was the strongest hurricane to make landfall in Florida’s Big ...
1 day ago · Helene has weakened to a post-tropical cyclone and is moving north, bringing what the National Hurricane Center called "catastrophic, historic flooding" over parts of the southern Appalachians. At ...
2 days ago · Hurricane Helene's maximum sustained winds had dropped to 90 mph by 2 a.m. Friday, the National Hurricane Center said, but life-threatening storm surge, winds and rain are continuing.
