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Early forecast calls for above-average 2013 hurricane season
An early 2013 hurricane season forecast is calling for a busy summer and fall, with a nearly 50 percent chance of a major storm striking the U.S. East Coast. Forecasters at Colorado State University on Wednesday predicted 18 named storms would form in...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Tropical Storms, Tropical Weather, Hurricanes, Natural Disasters
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National Hurricane Center tweaks warning policy after Sandy confusion
The National Hurricane Center will in the future maintain any necessary hurricane watches or warnings even if a storm is no longer technically a hurricane, as in the case of Superstorm Sandy. Center officials made the changes permanent Friday in light...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Tropical Storms, Long Island, Hurricanes, Weather Warnings
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Maryland saw heaviest Superstorm Sandy rainfall, according to official report
The Eastern Shore town of Bellevue saw the heaviest rains in the U.S. during Superstorm Sandy, according to an official report on the storm the National Hurricane Center released Tuesday. The town, across the Tred Avon River from Oxford and just south...
Tags: Natural Disasters, United States Naval Academy, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Tide Point Waterfront Park, Weather Reports
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National Hurricane Center may change warning criteria after Sandy
The National Hurricane Center may loosen the criteria it uses in issuing hurricane warnings so that future storms like Superstorm Sandy would prompt the same alerts as if they were still officially classified as hurricanes, according to AccuWeather.com....
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Tropical Storms, Long Island, Weather Warnings, Hurricanes
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Sandy tests Md. emergency preparations
Baltimore emergency officials expected devastation on par with Hurricane Katrina. Expecting Hurricane Sandy to knock out communications, they coordinated with local radio to broadcast public safety information and planned a "carrier pigeon" network that...
Tags: Snow Storms, Government, Conservation, Executive Branch, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Hurricane Sandy weakens but still on track for damaging Delmarva strike
Hurricane Sandy has weakened with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph as of 2 p.m., but it is still expected to be a massive and powerful system for the next several days that could strike the Delmarva peninsula at hurricane strength and cause hundreds of...
Tags: Tropical Storms, Long Island, Tropical Weather, Hurricanes, Natural Disasters
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Hurricane Sandy update: Storm strengthens, could strike Delmarva
Hurricane Sandy is a category 2 storm with 105 mph winds, and though it will be weaker than that five days from now, it could wreak havoc anywhere from the Delmarva Peninsula to Cape Cod, an increasing number of models are showing. The storm is still...
Tags: Halloween, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Tropical Storms, Hurricanes, Natural Disasters
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Sandy, Tony could rank 2012 hurricane season among busiest on record
Tropical Depression 19 is holding strength in the middle of the Atlantic, and if it gains strength as expected and becomes Tropical Storm Tony, it will make the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season the third-busiest on record. Tony would be the 19th named...
Tags: Tropical Storms, Tropical Weather, Hurricanes, Natural Disasters
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NOAA center puts center of weather research at students' fingertips in College Park
Colleen Wilson of Ellicott City became the first person to enroll in the University of Maryland, College Park's new meteorology degree program a year ago. Now she's embarking on research with some of the nation's top weather watchers. The program and the...Tags: Water Pollution, NASA, Greenbelt (Prince George's, Maryland), Government, University of Maryland, College Park
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More tropical action: Rafael is season's ninth hurricane
Just as the early parts of the Atlantic hurricane season saw some action, the tropics are still stirring in the last six weeks or so of the season, with Hurricane Rafael showing there is still some fight out there. The storm is about 345 miles south of...
Tags: Tropical Storms, Hurricanes, Weather Warnings, Natural Disasters, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Tropical Storm Patty quickly weakening
Tropical Storm Patty has formed and should be a short-lived sixteenth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. The storm is 230 miles northeast of the Bahamas, not too far from Florida, but there are no storm watches or warnings in effect. The storm...
Tags: Tropical Storms, Hurricanes, Tropical Weather, Natural Disasters, Weather Reports
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Forget 'Snowmageddon': Weather Channel to assign names to winter storms
The massive snowstorm that blanketed Baltimore and much of the northeast in February 2010 garnered the name "Snowmageddon" from social media users suffering from extreme cabin fever. This winter, how about storms named Brutus, Iago, Helen or even Q?...
Tags: Snow Storms, Tropical Weather, Weather Reports, The Weather Channel (tv network), New York City
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