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NOAA predicts 'possibly extremely active' hurricane season
U.S. government meteorologists predict a “possibly extremely active” hurricane season in 2013, the top National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official said Thursday, with as many as half a dozen major hurricanes. NOAA expects 13...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Bodies of Water, Natural Disasters, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Atlantic Ocean
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AccuWeather predicts another active hurricane season for U.S. shores
AccuWeather.com is predicting another active Atlantic hurricane season, particularly for the U.S. coastline. While the Pennsylvania-based meteorology company is calling for fewer storms in all, with 16 tropical storms versus 19 in 2012, AccuWeather's...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Natural Disasters, Weather Warnings, Hurricane Katrina (2005), National Weather Service
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Sandy retired from list of hurricane names; replaced with Sara
Sandy is the 77th name to be retired from the World Meteorological Organization's Atlantic hurricane season lists, joining memorable storms to hit Maryland like Irene, Isabel, Gloria and Agnes. Sara will replace it on a list that will next come into use...
Tags: Weather Science, Natural Disasters, Tropical Storms, Hurricanes, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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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), Natural Disasters, National Hurricane Center, Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Storms
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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), Long Island, Natural Disasters, Weather Warnings, National Hurricane Center
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Closing schools for last week's snow, better safe than sorry [Commentary]
Football season's over and baseball spring training games often don't rise to the level being topic for casual conversation, so last week's big snow that wasn't quickly became fodder for plenty of commentary at many levels. A major target when stormy...Tags: Spring Training, National Weather Service, Snow Storms, Tropical Storms, The Weather Channel (tv network)
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It's a storm, not a person
The Baltimore SunI'm not keen on anthropomorphizing nature, a tendency best left to nineteenth-century poets: Shelley, Wordsworth, that element. So I grit my teeth and endure the National Weather Service's practice of naming tropical storms and hurricanes. It's a well-...Tags: National Weather Service, Tropical Storms, The Weather Channel (tv network), Weather Reports
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2012 was warmest year on record for U.S., NOAA confirms
A record-warm spring, second-warmest summer, fourth-warmest winter and above-normal fall made 2012 the warmest year on record for the contiguous states, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It was a foregone conclusion...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Weather Statistics, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 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), Long Island, Weather Warnings, Natural Disasters, National Hurricane Center
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'Unusual' hurricane season among busiest, but lacked strength besides Sandy
Despite being one of the most active on record, the 2012 hurricane season lacked power -- Superstorm Sandy notwithstanding -- making it a "highly unusual year", according to one storm forecaster. The season officially ends Friday, and some...
Tags: BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Natural Disasters, Tropical Storms, Hurricanes
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Letter: Eastern Shore senator questions state's plan for dealing with sediment behind Conowingo Dam
This letter was sent to the head of the Maryland Department of Environment and a similar one was sent to the head of the Department of Natural Resources. A copy was provided for publication. In August, the U.S. Geological Survey published a report...Tags: Tropical Storm Lee (2011), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Geological Survey, Hurricane Irene (2011), Tropical Storms
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Tropical Storm Nadine still circling in Atlantic
It was about two weeks ago that a young Tropical Storm Nadine spun around near the Caribbean and East Coast, though the storm ended up circling back east toward the Azores. Here it goes again. The storm reformed as a tropical cyclone Sunday morning,...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Tropical Storms, Hurricanes
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