The storm will likely deliver some impacts to the DC region after making landfall along the northern Gulf Coast as the season's first hurricane.

Highs climb into the 80s with increasingly muggy conditions, and some spots could make a run at 90 by Friday.

'Late that night, in absolute darkness, it hit, with the far shrieking screams, the queer rumbling of a vast and irresistible freight train,' Marjory Stoneman Douglas wrote of the storm.

NOAA Hurricane Hunter research mission en route to the storm

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Dawn Wertz says she was celebrating her niece’s 21st birthday at a party in Summerland in the British Columbia Interior when ashes the size of loonies began raining down at her sister’s home.

Firefighters are battling a vegetation fire in Tuolumne County that is threatening the town of Sonora.

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Surface-level smoke from wildfires has infiltrated the skies over parts of Ontario and Quebec, making for orange, yellowish and/or hazy scenery