WMAR-2 News Abigail Degler Sunday morning weather
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
15 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Invest 93L being monitored for potential tropical trouble for Gulf Coast
The National Hurricane Center has designated an area of disturbed weather near Florida as Invest 93L.
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
CenterPoint Energy is monitoring a tropical disturbance in the Northeast Gulf and ready to activate its summer storm readiness plan, if needed
Current projections show a low probability of Texas Coast impacts beyond rain Any potential impacts would occur late Friday or early Saturday Customers and public encouraged to sign-up for Power Alert Service for updates about friends, family and community locations HOUSTON, July 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CenterPoint Energy's Meteorology, Emergency Planning & Response and Electric Operations teams are monitoring a tropical disturbance moving across Florida toward the Gulf. Based on current projections, the path of the storm could come near the Texas Coast by the end of the week, but is anticipated to be primarily a rain event for the Houston area. While it's still early and there are many variables, CenterPoint is ready to take action with its summer storm readiness plan. Should the disturbance continue to organize, gain strength, and models align on its different track, CenterPoint will take further actions. "CenterPoint's meteorology team has been monitoring this disturbance as it moved toward the Florida peninsula over the weekend. And we will continue to monitor, review new models and data and leverage our suite of technology assets, so we are prepared," said Matt Lanza, CenterPoint's Manager of Meteorology. "Right now, we are anticipating the low likelihood of an end of week potential rain event." "While it is early and weather models can change, we want our customers, communities and public to know that we have a summer storm readiness plan. We encourage everyone to keep an eye on the weather this week while CenterPoint stands ready to activate," said Darin Carroll, Senior Vice President of CenterPoint's Electric Business. CenterPoint's summer storm readiness plan The actions CenterPoint may take to prepare and respond to storms this summer include: Mobilizing vegetation management workers: Deploying local and contract personnel to clear hazardous vegetation from power lines in the Greater Houston area ahead of storm landfall to prevent outages. Coordinating with government officials: Providing regular updates to federal, state, county and city officials about our pre-storm activities and readiness posture. Conducting outreach to critical care customers: Reaching out to identified Critical Care Residential and Chronic Condition Residential electric customers by email, phone or text. Sharing information and updates: Providing safety and preparedness information directly with customers via email, phone or text, across social media platforms and other channels to keep customers informed and prepared. Organizing additional call center staffing: Securing additional call center staff to handle a higher volume of calls during the storm and limit wait times. Actions since Hurricane Beryl: Greater Houston Resiliency InitiativeSince launching GHRI following Hurricane Beryl last summer, CenterPoint executed a historic series of critical resiliency improvements across the company's 12-county Greater Houston area service territory. The company completed the following actions: Installed or replaced more than 26,000 stronger, more storm-resilient poles built to withstand extreme winds; Undergrounded more than 400 miles of power lines to improve overall resiliency; Installed more than 5,150 additional automated reliability devices and intelligent grid switching devices to reduce the impact of outages and improve restoration times; Cleared more than 6,000 miles of higher-risk vegetation near power lines to reduce storm-related outages; Installed more than 100 weather stations across our service territory to improve situational awareness and storm preparation; Donated 21 backup generators to critical facilities across the company's 12-county service area; and Launched a new and improved, cloud-based Outage Tracker to provide real-time updates on outages and restoration efforts in English and Spanish. Important weather station facts and locations CenterPoint has installed over 100 weather monitoring stations ahead of the Atlantic hurricane season. The weather monitoring stations were installed in strategic locations across CenterPoint's 12-county Greater Houston area electric service territory. The devices take measurements every 2-5 minutes, including humidity levels, wind speed, temperature, and rainfall. For more information on CenterPoint's GHRI actions and improvements ahead of hurricane season, visit Sign-up for Power Alert Service to get updates about family and friendsCenterPoint electric customers are encouraged to enroll in the company's Power Alert Service® to receive outage details, estimated restoration times and customer-specific restoration updates via phone call, text or email. Customers can add up to five additional email addresses or phone numbers to allow family and friends to receive outage information. CenterPoint encourages all customers to have a plan to stay safeCenterPoint is encouraging all of its customers to prepare and have a plan to stay safe during this week's weather. Customers can get storm-related safety tips at — available in English, Spanish and Vietnamese. Customers can also stay up to date on outages with CenterPoint's new and improved, cloud-based Outage Tracker, now available in English and Spanish. The Outage Tracker is built to handle increased traffic during storms, is mobile-friendly, ADA-compliant, and allows customers to see outages by county, city and zip code. For the latest updates, follow CenterPoint on X and visit About CenterPoint Energy, Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) is a multi-state electric and natural gas delivery company serving approximately 7 million metered customers across Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Texas. The company is headquartered in Houston and is the only Texas-domiciled investor-owned utility. As of March 31, 2025, the company had approximately $44 billion in assets. With approximately 8,300 employees, CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been serving customers for more than 150 years. For more information, visit For more information, contact: View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE CenterPoint Energy Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
CBS News
an hour ago
- CBS News
Fast-moving landspout southeast of Denver metro area damages 7 businesses' roofs, Franktown Fire Department says
A "fast-moving" landspout that formed southeast of the Denver metro area damaged at least seven businesses Monday afternoon. No one has been reported injured, but photos from the area show significant damage to at least some of those businesses' roofs. The Franktown Fire Department said around 3 p.m. that the landspout formed near the intersection of Highways 83 and 86. Both the fire department and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office characterized the landspout as "fast-moving," and the sheriff's office is asking people to avoid the area while crews work to assess the damage, help clean up, and keep people in the area safe. The National Weather Service in Boulder issued an alert about the weather around 2:40 p.m., saying hail was also possible. That alert was extended to the towns of Bennett and Strasburg soon after. A landspout is similar to a tornado, but forms from the ground up, instead of from the sky down to the ground. Franktown is about 35 miles southeast of Denver.
