Pockets of water still bulged from her ceiling Friday in what had been a newly painted house, and Ortiz listed what she could recall of her lost furniture and other goods.Īfter staying in a shelter and with a friend for days, she hopes to move back into her home soon: “When you lose your bed, you lose your head.”įiona hit southwestern Puerto Rico with 85 mph (140 kph) winds on Sept. READ MORE: How to help victims of Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico “Oh, my dear,” responded Margarita Ortiz, a 46-year-old house cleaner standing in a home that was nearly barren because so many flood-damaged belongings had already been discarded. She stopped at a white-and-seafoam green house and asked the owner to detail her losses in the storm that had flooded much of the town of Toa Baja. Hourly forecasts are available as well.TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico (AP) - City worker Carmen Medina walked purposefully through the working-class community of Tranquility Village under a brutal sun, with clipboard, survey forms and pen in hand - part of a small army of officials trying to gauge the scope of disaster caused by Hurricane Fiona’s strike on Puerto Rico. Enter a location, and you’ll get the current conditions and forecast (updated every 15 minutes), as well as in-depth statistics and timelines of conditions like wind speed, visibility, and humidity as they’ve been tracked throughout the day. Storm is billed as “the Best App for the Worst Weather,” and it’s kind of hard to argue with that. Weather Underground culls information from more than 200,000 stations worldwide. Now they’ve updated their offerings with a new inclement weather app for mobile devices called Storm from Weather Underground.
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The sticky humidity and heat that’s bothering apartment dwellers in urban basins in the southwest aren’t fun, but up in the mountains they could easily trigger surprise thunderstorms and monsoon rains, not to mention dangerous flash floods in the canyons below - even when the skies are clear. Beyond filling the time with idle small talk at the water cooler, weather reports can have a huge affect on our trail time plans … and many times, those weather conditions are more than an inconvenience - they can be downright life threatening. As someone who spends a significant amount of time outside, odds are you probably pay a bit more attention to weather reports and forecasts than your Average Joe Coworker.
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