136340 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2021/07/02/elsa-strengthens-to-hurricane/The first Atlantic hurricane of the season has formed with Tampa Bay squarely in its path. Hurricane Elsa reached hurricane strength Friday morning and hours later shifted slightly east. The Florida peninsula remains in the cone of uncertainty, with Elsa’s arrival to Tampa Bay set for midday on Tuesday.Fri, 02 Jul 2021 22:42:00 +0200tampabay-a8e1e05a6567f49d5039af3a7e9e75ef20210702224200https://www.wral.com/parts-of-central-nc-under-flash-flood-risk-today-elsa-becomes-hurricane/19744480/The first round of storms started Thursday night, and we're going to stay rainy for most of the day on Friday. Friday morning will begin with a soggy drive to work for most in the WRAL viewing area. "The rain's already affecting folks in the Triangle area and northward and westward," WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner said around 6:30 a.Fri, 02 Jul 2021 14:14:00 +0200wral-f185ce0235a12935b8678b7df95ecac720210702141400https://www.wral.com/parts-of-central-north-carolina-under-flash-flood-risk-on-friday-as-widespread-heavy-rain-expected/19744480/The first round of storms began Thursday night, and are expected to continue throughout most of the day on Friday. On Thursday night, power outages, wind damage and downed trees were reported throughout central North Carolina. "We had a report of trees down in Southern Pines," Maze said, adding that several other towns also reported trees down.Fri, 02 Jul 2021 06:11:00 +0200wral-163134c918ac7805ffebcf654c4c8b9f20210702061100https://www.wishtv.com/weather/weather-stories/tropical-storm-elsa-forms-in-atlantic-could-near-florida-peninsula/(CNN) — Tropical Storm Elsa is still several days from potentially nearing Florida — possibly around the site of the deadly condo collapse — as the third storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season to threaten land in the United States. “It is too soon to determine what, if any, impacts could occur....Fri, 02 Jul 2021 03:42:00 +0200wishtv-63342fd5d6ef6d408c729ff5b7dfa46520210702034200