NEW YORK -- Poor planning, low staffing and miscommunication plagued New York City's response to Tropical Storm Ophelia in 2023, according to a new report from the city comptroller's office.

Tropical Storm Ophelia brought heavy rainfall and strong winds to the mid-Atlantic region Saturday, causing power outages in North Carolina and Virginia. Photo: Eros Hoagland/Getty Images ...

Tropical Storm Ophelia delivers between 1-3 inches of rain from late Friday night to Sunday evening. Wind gusts could reach 35 miles per hour at times. Heaviest of rain is likely south and ...

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O ne of the most potent recent examples happened with former Hurricane Ophelia in October 2017. While Ophelia lost its tropical characteristics before reaching Ireland, it produced wind gusts to ...

Valle Crucis, North Carolina, was a winter wonderland on Thursday, January 16, even though it had been a week since a winter storm hit the state. X user John Downs posted a compilation of videos ...

BBC weather presenter Simon King said it was due to the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia dragging in tropical air and dust from the Sahara. He added that debris from forest fires in Portugal and ...

enhanced by some energy from ex-tropical storm Ophelia which hit the north-east coast of the US over the weekend. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) put a number of flood warnings ...

The remnants of Hurricane Ophelia began hitting the UK and Ireland in mid-October – triggering severe weather warnings and killing at least three. THE spectacular sight of a yellow sky and red ...

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