
Amy Graff
Weather Data Reporter at The New York Times
Leads news coverage at SFGATE. I report on everything, but weather and wildfires are my obsession. Send news tips to [email protected].
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Amy Graff
Even a few seconds' notice gives people time to prepare before the shaking. Millions of people across Southern California learned about a 5.2-magnitude earthquake that hit San Diego County on Monday not from their windows rattling or their picture frames clattering, but from a noisy alert on their mobile phones seconds before the shaking started. The urgent messages - advising people to "drop, cover, hold on.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Kevin Williams |Carly Gist |Amy Graff |Rick Rojas
Waters continued to rise in communities from Arkansas to Michigan as the storm, which has killed at least eight, drenched the region. More tornadoes were also possible.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Mitch Smith |Isabelle Taft |Rachel Nostrant |Amy Graff
Rivers were rising rapidly across much of the Midwest and South on Saturday, prompting water rescues, evacuation orders and road closures as a relentless storm continued to dump rain. The increased flooding, which was happening from Texas to Ohio, came after days of heavy rains and tornadoes that killed at least 14 people, including a Missouri firefighter who died while responding to a water rescue call Friday and a 74-year-old found trapped in a submerged vehicle in Kentucky.
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2 weeks ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Mitch Smith |Amy Graff |Simon Levien
Share Rivers were rising rapidly across much of the Midwest and South on Saturday, prompting water rescues and road closures as a relentless storm continued to dump rain across the country.The increased flooding, which was happening from Texas to Ohio, came after days of heavy rains and tornadoes that killed at least nine people, including a Missouri firefighter who died while responding to a water rescue call on Friday.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Mitch Smith |Isabelle Taft |Rachel Nostrant |Amy Graff
"Folks are going to have the potential for really all modes of severe weather, from tornadoes to damaging straight-line winds, up to large hail," said Scott Unger, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Nashville. At times, the hail could be as large as golf balls, he said, with severe weather potentially lasting well into Saturday night.
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I'm no longer posting here. I'm moving over to Bluesky (@amyjeangraff.bsky.social), but before I log off, I want to share that I joined the Weather Data team @nytimes as a reporter. Last week, I helped with Thursday's earthquake coverage. https://t.co/bBqauf5OAG

RT @NWSBayArea: 🌧️We typically receive around 60% of our annual precipitation from December through February https://t.co/ttq7BGtDzr

RT @NHC_Atlantic: The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season officially ended on Saturday (Nov. 30)! Here are a preliminary summary and track map o…