Not one hurricane strikes United States
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The mild 2006 Atlantic hurricane season draws to a close Thursday without a single hurricane striking the United States &#151; a stark contrast to the record-breaking 2005 season that killed more than 1,500 people and left thousands homeless along the Gulf Coast.
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The prospect that a tropical storm and a hurricane &#151; or possibly two hurricanes &#151; could strike Florida on the same day is something meteorologists say they have never seen.
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Tropical Storm Ernesto packed little   punch after coming ashore in Florida as a rainstorm instead of   a dreaded hurricane, but forecasters on Wednesday said it could   still pose a threat to the U.S. mainland.
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The Gulf Coast had a Category 4 hurricane on its doorstep Thursday morning. There were several doors it could have knocked down to make landfall in the continental United States.
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ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada - Hurricane Ivan pummeled Grenada, Barbados and other islands with its devastating winds and rains, causing at least 15 deaths, before setting a direct course for Jamaica, Cuba and the hurricane-weary southern United States...
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Hurricanes Gordon and Helene churned  across the Atlantic with strong winds and gusty rains on Sunday  but neither posed any immediate threat to land, U.S.  forecasters said.
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Despite a tropical storm and a tropical depression spinning in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, no storms currently threaten the U.S. oil and natural gas production in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Tropical Storm Jeanne brought heavy rain and winds to the Dominican Republic yesterday after killing two people in Puerto Rico, as the latest in a stream of Atlantic storms crossed the Caribbean toward the United States.
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MIAMI - The east coast of Florida suffered widespread damage from punishing winds and torrential rains unleashed by Hurricane Jeanne, but so far there have been no casualties reported, officials in the storm-weary state said yesterday.
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The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Wednesday it did not expect any tropical cyclones to form over the next 48 hours, however, an area of disturbed weather in the Caribbean Sea could slowly become more favorable for development during the next couple of days.
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None of the weather models on Monday  predicted Tropical Storm Noel would threaten the U.S. oil and  gas production facilities in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
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A noted U.S. hurricane forecaster said on Tuesday the milder-than-expected Atlantic season will produce just two more tropical storms and no more "major" hurricanes due to El Nino conditions in the Pacific.
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The Colorado State University hurricane research team left unchanged its outlook for the 2007 Atlantic storm season on Thursday and predicted there would be 17 storms, with nine growing to hurricane strength.
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Tropical Storm Frances formed in the  Atlantic Ocean far east of the Caribbean islands on Wednesday  and posed no immediate threat to any populated area.
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The only whooshing sound Hurricane Ivan stirred yesterday in the Florida Keys and populous South Florida was a sigh of relief from residents who were no longer fearful that the 150-mph storm would make a direct hit.
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KEY WEST, Fla. - The only whooshing sound Hurricane Ivan stirred in the Keys and populous South Florida on Sunday was a sigh of relief from residents no longer fearful the 160-mph storm would make a direct hit...
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Despite a tropical storm and a  tropical depression spinning in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf  of Mexico, no storms currently threaten the U.S. oil and  natural gas production in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the U.S.  National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.