By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Oct. 19, the 293rd day of 2024. There are 73 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 19, 1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6% in value (its largest daily percentage loss ever), ...
By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Oct. 17, the 291st day of 2024. There are 75 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 17, 1989, an earthquake measuring 6.9 in magnitude struck northern California, killing 63 people and causing up to $10 billion worth of damage. Also ...
Marquette and vicinity: Today, sunny, with a high near 61. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Tonight, clear, with a low around 45. Breezy, with a southwest wind 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Extended forecast: Friday, sunny, with a high near 67. South ...
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Monstrous hurricanes Helene and Milton caused so much complex havoc that damages are still being added up, but government and private experts say they will likely join the infamous ranks of Katrina, Sandy and Harvey as super costly $50-billion-plus killers. Making that even more painful is that most of the damage — 95% or more in Helene’s case — was not insured, putting victims in a deeper financial hole. Storm deaths have been dropping over time, although Helene was an exception. But even adjusted for inflation, damages from intense ...
By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Oct. 12, the 286th day of 2024. There are 80 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 12, 2002, bombs blamed on al-Qaida-linked militants destroyed two nightclubs on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people, many of whom were foreign tourists. Also on this date: In 1492, Christopher Columbus’s first expedition made landfall on what is now San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. In 1870, General Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia, at age 63. In 1960, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev protested remarks at the ...
By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press Human-caused climate change intensified deadly Hurricane Milton ‘s rainfall by 20 to 30% and strengthened its winds by about 10%, scientists said in a new flash study. The analysis comes just two weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated the southeastern United States, a storm also fueled by climate change. World Weather Attribution researchers said Friday that without climate change, a hurricane like Milton would make landfall as a weaker Category 2, not considered a “major” storm, instead of a Category 3. WWA’s rapid studies aren’t ...
