The slow-moving storm was downgraded to a tropical depression as it continued to pound Florida with drenching rain and strong winds. Debby is the fourth named system of the 2012 hurricane season.
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Polar Bear and Seals Escape after Floods Wreck Minnesota Zoo
Heavy rains in Duluth, Minn. inundated the Lake Superior Zoo, drowning some animals and allowing others to flee.
Flash Floods Swamp Duluth, Minn.
Heavy rainfall flooded vast swathes of the port city, washing out roads, inundating family homes, and spurring evacuations.
Metta World Peace Is a Weatherman in Canada
And now the weather, brought to you by a Los Angeles Laker with anger management issues.
A Year of Recovery in Joplin, Mo.: Photos by Eric Thayer
Photojournalist Eric Thayer got to Joplin, Mo., 18 hours after the devastating tornado cut a nearly mile-wide swath through the city of 50,000 on May 22, 2011, killing 161 people. He’s returned twice since then and plans to …
Come Reign Or Shine: Prince Charles Turns Weatherman
Prince Charles and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, read the weather on BBC Scotland
Tornado Alley: On the Ground With a Storm Chaser
On the ground with Reuters photographer and storm chaser Gene Blevins, as he documents a spate of tornadoes that tore through parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
Texas Storm Results in Four Feet of Hail
The Texas panhandle has some of the craziest weather in the U.S., according to Krissy Scotten, the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service Office in Amarillo, Texas. And with the hailstorm that happened …
America Had the Warmest March on Record
Is it hot in the world, or is it just us?
Watch: Tornado Ravages Dallas-Fort Worth Area, Tossing Tractor Trailers Into the Air
Tornadoes ripped through the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area Tuesday afternoon, launching tractor-trailers into the air as if they were children’s toys. As a tornado spun through an industrial area in Lancaster, Texas, about 15 …
National Weather Service Tests ‘Catastrophic’ Storm Warnings
“Mass devastation is highly likely, making the area unrecognizable to survivors” sounds more like an apocalyptic prediction than a severe weather warning. But this phrase and others like it are now part of a new initiative by …
Watch: Tornadoes Devastate Marysville and Henryville in Southern Indiana
A line of tornados that swept through the Midwestern and southern U.S. Friday is responsible for at least 37 deaths across four states. Ohio, Alabama, Kentucky and Indiana were pummeled as raging thunderstorms stirred up …