The Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Oscar turns deadly in Cuba as new tropical storm emerges in Pacific
Top weather news for Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. Tropical Storm Oscar has turned deadly in Cuba as the system aims for the Bahamas again while a new tropical storm emerges in the Pacific Ocean.
Weather in America: October 22, 2024
FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and weather news headlines for your Weather in America on Tuesday, October 22, 2024. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.
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Deadly Tropical Storm Oscar aims for the Bahamas
The impact of Tropical Storm Oscar has left at least six people dead in Cuba as the weakening system takes aim again at the Bahamas where it made its first landfall over the weekend.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel made that announcement one day after the storm made landfall there as a Category 1 hurricane.
Oscar made landfall near Baracoa in the Cuban province of Guantanamo just before 6 p.m. ET Sunday with winds of 80 mph – its second landfall of that day. Earlier Sunday, Oscar made its first landfall on Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas.
This image shows people on a boat during flooding caused by Tropical Storm Oscar in Cuba.
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Tropical Storm Kristy forms off Mexico's coast from Nadine's remnants
The remnants of former Tropical Storm Nadine have reorganized into a new tropical storm in the Eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Mexico.
Since this is not Nadine's original circulation, the National Hurricane Center has assigned it the next name on the Eastern Pacific naming list – Tropical Storm Kristy.
Kristy is forecast to intensify into a hurricane by Wednesday. However, the FOX Forecast Center said the storm is not expected to impact any land areas as it remains over the open waters of the Eastern Pacific.
This graphic shows the forecast track for Tropical Storm Kristy.
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Trio of meteor showers to light up night sky
Admirers of space will have a few more reasons to look up next month, as three more meteor showers are expected to reach peak visibility.
The Leonids and Southern and Northern Taurids meteor showers each reach their peaks sometime throughout November.
If three meteor showers weren't enough for November, activity from the Geminids meteor shower begins Nov. 19. This meteor shower won't reach its peak until mid-December, but the Geminids shower is considered by NASA to be one of the best annual meteor showers.
FILE- BAZHOU, CHINA - NOVEMBER 17. 2021 - Starry sky over Hora Mountain in Bayingoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on the early morning of November 17, 2021. On winter nights, the Leonid meteor shower is coming. (Photo credit should read via Getty Images)
(Xue Bing / Costfoto/Future Publishing / Getty Images)
Watch: Record-breaking flooding in New Mexico strands Roswell family
A couple in Roswell, New Mexico, narrowly escaped tragedy after their home was destroyed by catastrophic flooding over the weekend.
Chaser Dean Harper said he was trapped on his porch with his wife, along with their pets as the water rose on Saturday. Four hours later, the Roswell Fire Department arrived to rescue the stranded family, according to Harper.
Roswell couple, pets await rescue on flooded porch after record-breaking rainfall
Footage captured by Roswell, New Mexico, resident Chaser Dean Harper shows him, his wife, their two dogs, two cats, four snakes and one lizard awaiting rescue on the porch of their flooded home on Saturday.
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