By Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) — Tropical Storm Idalia is set to strengthen as it heads north through the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to strike Florida’s west coast Wednesday as…
https://gcaptain.com/idalia-threatens-major-hurricane-landfall-in-florida/
Portions of Union Pacific’s Yuma subdivision in California are still offline following Tropical Storm Hilary, but “progress continues to be made” to restore the tracks, UP said in a Tuesday service update.
UP (NYSE: UNP) is referring to an area between Banning and Indio, California, on the Yuma subdivision. Water, mud and debris covered areas of track as a result of the storm, according to recent service advisories, and reopening track there will depend on when UP can repair a bridge.
“Mud...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/up-still-working-to-restore-tracks-in-yuma-subdivision
Heavy rains and flooding from Tropical Storm Hilary are disrupting Union Pacific’s network in Southern California, forcing the railway to put parts of its network out of service, according to a Monday customer update.
Areas within UP’s Mojave and Yuma subdivisions are out of service due to water and mud over the tracks, UP (NYSE: UNP) said.
“Widespread road and interstate closures are impacting our ability to transport crews to operate trains, and public electrical outages are impacting...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hilary-disrupts-union-pacifics-southern-california-network
MEXICO CITY, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Hurricane Hilary hurtled towards Mexico’s Baja California peninsula on Saturday, a U.S. government agency said, blanketing the region with heavy rain amid warnings ofcatastrophic and life-threatening flooding on the peninsula…
https://gcaptain.com/hurricane-hilary-barrels-towards-baja-california-peninsula-southwest-us/
by John Konrad (gCaptain) San Diego is taking necessary precautions by shutting down harbor pilot operations in anticipation of the arrival of Hurricane Hilary. Captain Bill Bartsch, President of the…
https://gcaptain.com/san-diego-to-halt-ship-traffic-ahead-of-hurricane-hilary/
(Bloomberg) — Hurricane Hilary’s winds exploded in strength overnight to reach Category 4 intensity as the rare eastern Pacific storm churned north on a path toward California. Warm water fueled…
https://gcaptain.com/hurricane-hilary-intensifies-as-storm-charts-path-to-california/
By Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) –The world just had its hottest June ever for land and sea, with ocean temperatures setting new highs for the third month in a row. Combined…
https://gcaptain.com/world-has-hottest-june-on-record-as-ocean-temperatures-soar/
by Wei Mei, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Shang-Ping Xie, University of California, San Diego (via TheConversation) Tropical cyclones have been growing stronger worldwide over the past…
https://gcaptain.com/even-weak-cyclones-have-grown-more-intense/
This story was originally published on August 26, 2017, but has been updated for the 2022 hurricane season.
In 2003, I got caught in the middle of a hurricane. But it wasn’t the high winds and water that I faced, it was the surge of truckloads that my startup on-demand trucking division received.
My small but agile team of 11 made up the on-demand provider of US Xpress, known as Xpress Direct. We were set up to handle the spot on-demand capacity needs for major shippers, brokers, and airfreight...
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By Brian K. Sullivan and Amelia Pollard Jun 4, 2022 (Bloomberg) –Heavy rains are threatening to topple a century-old record in Miami even if the storm that brought them doesn’t have…