2664660 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.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2021/08/26/storm-ida/7941630020502/Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Ida formed Thursday afternoon just west of Jamaica, bringing heavy rains and storm surges to the Caribbean before heading into the Gulf of Mexico and strengthening, forecasters said. In its 8 p.m. EDT update , the National Hurricane Center said the center of the storm....2021-08-27T02:37+0200upi-90dae9e882c570446d4fbd678cf9451420210827023700https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9930805/Offshore-oil-workers-evacuated-Gulf-Mexico-possible-Hurricane-Ida-barrels-region.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490In 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25, devastating Texas and Louisiana with winds, several feet of rain and flooding. More than 204,000 homes were destroyed, according to Lamar University in Texas. Preemptively, BHP, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and Equinor began evacuating their workers.2021-08-27T00:30+0200dailymail-f4e109cd66d6c0c6fe97f5db8bf0121820210827003000https://www.nytimes.com/article/tropical-storm-ida-hurricane.htmlAnd Henri formed on Aug. 16 as a tropical storm off the East Coast of the United States. It strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane but was downgraded before making landfall in Rhode Island , sparing the region the worst of what had been predicted. It thrashed the Northeast with fierce winds and....2021-08-27T00:19+0200nytimes-54d06d83319a11884f31e61c977a799020210827001900https://www.newsbreak.com/channels/t-hurricaneJust days after Hurricane Henri swept through the Northeast, the tropics pose another, even more dangerous threat. The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a disturbance in the Caribbean that hasn't even developed into a named system, but in just a few days, it may make landfall as a powerful hurricane on the Gulf Coast.2021-08-26T23:14+0200newsbreak-USA-65df079320c450de13f9c363f061056720210826231400