342330 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.kimt.com/content/news/StormTeam3-Tracking-Drought-Rain-and-former-Hurricanes-575228741.htmlA lot going on today in the weather world locally and nationally. Here is what we are tracking. 1. Improving Drought. Great news, we saw across the board improvements thanks to rain last week! Moderate drought now only through parts of North Iowa and Freeborn co (which were in a severe drought before).2021-09-02T17:15+0200kimt-6de92ad34d996bf80bbb6d033f939bd220210902171500https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/podcasts/the-daily/hurricane-ida-new-orleans-extreme-weather.htmlAfter Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans, leaving destruction in its wake, comparisons with Hurricane Katrina were made. There are, however, big differences between the two disasters — namely that the city, in the 16 years since Katrina, has heavily invested in flood defenses which potentially avoided the worst impacts of the storm.2021-09-02T16:01+0200google-top-stories-innovatie-afa025cbfae9a4b7a86cc1eb8647c6c920210902160100https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/podcasts/the-daily/hurricane-ida-new-orleans-extreme-weather.htmlAfter Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans, leaving destruction in its wake, comparisons with Hurricane Katrina were made. There are, however, big differences between the two disasters — namely that the city, in the 16 years since Katrina, has heavily invested in flood defenses which potentially avoided the worst impacts of the storm.2021-09-02T15:57+0200google-top-stories-afa025cbfae9a4b7a86cc1eb8647c6c920210902155700https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/podcasts/the-daily/hurricane-ida-new-orleans-extreme-weather.htmlAfter Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans, leaving destruction in its wake, comparisons with Hurricane Katrina were made. There are, however, big differences between the two disasters — namely that the city, in the 16 years since Katrina, has heavily invested in flood defenses which potentially avoided the worst impacts of the storm.2021-09-02T13:40+0200nytimes-afa025cbfae9a4b7a86cc1eb8647c6c920210902134000