In Maine, Augusta plunged to 11 degrees Wednesday morning, breaking a previous record, and more records were expected to fall Thursday morning.
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Internet companies leave customers in the dark on storm-related outages
Providers don’t disclose the scope of outages or predict when service will be restored – because they don’t want to, and because they can’t.
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Two dead, 9 missing after Typhoon Hagibis drenches Tokyo
The storm is moving north and east, bringing more rain and flooding to the prefectures of Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate.
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Heat wave topples October records across much of the U.S.
Temperatures are peaking on Wednesday during an extended stretch of high heat and humidity east of the Mississippi River.
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Portland sets record high temperature for the date
A 5 p.m., it was 89 degrees in Portland, breaking the previous record high for Sept. 23 of 86 degrees set in 1941.
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Bermuda lashed by heavy winds from Category 3 Hurricane Humberto
Hurricane-force winds began to hit the island of some 70,000 people by late afternoon and would probably last into early Thursday.
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NOAA chief thanks Alabama weather office in wake of Dorian forecast controversy
The head of NOAA both defended the administration and thanked a local weather office that contradicted Trump’s claims about Hurricane Dorian’s threat to Alabama.
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Typhoon kills 3 in South Korea before moving to North Korea
Typhoon Lingling knocks out power to more than 161,000 homes.
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Drought spurred by Alaska’s hot, dry summer has residents taking extreme measures
Some Nanwalek villagers are using water from a local lagoon for flushing toilets, and elsewhere, restaurants are serving food on paper plates.
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Dorian’s floodwaters trap people in attics in North Carolina
Ocracoke Island is particularly hard hit, with longtime residents saying they’d never experienced such flooding.