YAHOO 29/09/2008 7,500 Mexicans evacuate; flooding shuts oil wells
AP - Mexican officials have evacuated 7,500 people and are keeping oil wells shut in Veracruz due to severe flooding from heavy rains along Mexico's Gulf coast.

YAHOO28/09/2008 Taiwan braces for Typhoon Jangmi as storms strike
AP - Authorities evacuated villagers from landslide-prone areas in Taiwan and residents boarded up windows amid torrential rain and wind as Typhoon Jangmi roared toward the island Sunday.

CNN 28/09/2008 Kyle grows to hurricane after passing Bermuda

A tropical storm strengthened into Hurricane Kyle on Saturday as it churned in the Atlantic Ocean west of Bermuda, the National Hurricane Center reported.
Tropical Storm Kyle could reach the U.S. East Coast on Sunday, forecasters say.
Forecasters issued tropical storm and hurricane watches for coastal Maine on Saturday. Kyle, a Category 1 hurricane, is forecast to make landfall late Sunday or early Monday near the border between Maine and Canada...

YAHOO 27/09/2008 Flash floods kill 21 in northern Vietnam
Reuters - Flash floods from a powerful typhoon that swept through the Philippines and China earlier in the week have killed at least 21 people in Vietnam, the government said Saturday.

BBC25/09/2008 - US East Coast to be hit by heavy rain and strong winds by Tomasz Schafernaker
Heavy rain and strong winds set to batter parts of the US eastern seaboard over the next few days...

BBC 24/09/2008 - Typhoon Hagupit slams into Guangdong by Matt Taylor
Typhoon Hagupit churned past Hong Kong on Tuesday night, uprooting trees and causing flash floods in a number of low lyin...
 

YAHOO 22/09/2008 India floods, rains kill 173, say officials
AFP - The death toll due to heavy rains and flooding over the weekend across India shot up to 173 with the air force rescuing a revered Tibetan spiritual leader, officials said Sunday.

YAHOO 21/09/2008 16 dead in Thailand floods: ministries
AFP - Severe flooding across Thailand has left at least 16 people dead and affected more than half a million people, the government said Sunday.

YAHOO 19/09/2008 Torrential rains kill 16 in northern India
AFP - At least 16 people have died as torrential rains and high winds lashed northern India, toppling trees and houses, officials said Saturday.

BBC 19/09/2008  Heavy Rain brings damaging floods to India by Steph Ball
Monsoon rains have drenched many parts of India causing flooding and mudslides...

BBC 18/09/2008  Tropical Storm Sinlaku lashes Southern Japan by Jay Wynne
Tropical storm Sinlaku hit southern Japan early on Thursday bringing torrential rain and strong winds...

YAHOO 15/09/2008 Typhoon Sinlaku kills 2 in Taiwan, heads to Japan
AP - Raging floods and rivers swollen by Typhoon Sinlaku killed at least two people and left a further seven missing and presumed dead in central Taiwan, authorities said Monday as the storm barreled toward Japan.

USA TODAY 13/09/2008  Hurricane Ike hits Galveston
The eye of Hurricane Ike, a monstrous storm with winds of at least 110 mph, was just south of the Galveston area at about 3 a.m. ET...

YAHOO 13/09/2008  Typhoon hits Taiwan, causing landslides
Reuters - A typhoon pounded Taiwan on Saturday, bringing torrential rains and triggering landslides in the central and northern part of the island, the national fire agency said. One person was reported injured.

World Meteorological Organization 09/09/2008  New tropical cyclone in western North Pacific

Tropical cyclone Sinlaku, currently centred about 400 km east of Manila, Philippines, is forecast to move slowly north-westward to northward and will reach typhoon intensity in 24 hours. The RSMC Tokyo Typhoon Centre is watching Sinlaku and providing guidance to the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in the area.

YAHOO 08/09/2008  Hurricane Ike slams Cuba, Haiti death toll passes 600
AFP - Hurricane Ike raged across Cuba on Monday with torrential rain and winds as Haiti struggled with a growing humanitarian crisis after four hurricanes in four weeks.

YAHOO 07/09/2008  Ike blasts Turks and Caicos as Category 4 storm
AP - Hurricane Ike damaged most of the homes on Grand Turk island as it roared onto the Bahamas, raked Haiti's flooded cities with rain and threatened the Florida Keys on its way to Cuba as a ferocious Category 4 storm Sunday.

USA TODAY 07/09/2008 Hanna dumps heavy rain in N.Y., New England
Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm's whipping winds and rain didn't linger long enough over...

CNN 04/09/2008 Ike ignites into 'extremely dangerous' Category 4 hurricane

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Hurricane Ike grew from a Category 1 into a menacing Category 4 storm in about six hours Wednesday as it fed on the warm waters of Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center said.

"Ike is an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane" with 135-mph sustained winds, the center said in its 11 p.m. ET advisory.

YAHOO 04/09/2008 Hanna leaves 61 dead in Haiti as more storms brew in Atlantic
AFP - Helicopters rescued survivors from rooftops in the flooded Haitian city of Gonaives as Tropical Storm Hanna claimed at least 61 lives, the third major storm to hammer Haiti in as many weeks.

CNN 03/09/2008   Haitians 'screaming for help' after storms

SAINT-MARC, Haiti (AP) -- Haitian families scrambled onto rooftops and screamed for help Tuesday in a city flooded by Tropical Storm Hanna, as U.N. peacekeepers and rescue convoys tried in vain to reach them.

CNN  02/09/2008  Hurricane Hanna batters Bahamas; Ike forms in Atlantic

Hurricane Hanna lingered Monday over the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos islands on a path that could hit the southeastern U.S. coast by midweek, while Tropical Storm Ike and still another weather pattern behind it raised the possibility of more havoc to come.

YAHOO 01/09/2008 New Orleans levee under threat as Gustav tears into US coast
AFP - Hurricane Gustav slammed into the US Gulf Coast Monday, driving a surge of water to the lip of the levees protecting New Orleans officials said almost exactly three years after the city was catastrophically swamped by Katrina.