Active hurricane season risk grows: meteorologists
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The likelihood of an above-average Atlantic hurricane season is growing as a Pacific Ocean El Nino system, which drove storms away from the Gulf Coast in 2006, ended in the past few weeks, meteorologists said on Thursday.
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Investor's Business Daily - The flock of hurricanes that hit Florida this season is putting more pressure on forecasters to provide fast, reliable information.
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The killer storm that slammed into Florida on August 13 made two things clear: Hurricanes can still surprise forecasters, and the rest of the 2004 hurricane season probably is going to be quite active.
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Far away, off the coast of South America, the waters of the Pacific Ocean are cooling ominously. In the Atlantic, the sea surface remains warm. And overhead, the atmosphere is evolving toward what forecasters said yesterday could be a dangerous hurricane season.
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Itâs hurricane season on the Carolina coast, and right now weâre between storms. But every time the sky starts to clear, the morning news announces something big and scary taking shape just over the horizon.
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One or two insurance companies might not have the financial wherewithal to survive this year&#39;s hurricane season in Florida, said several top industry officials and state regulators.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Plenty of people in Florida aren&#39;t thinking beyond Hurricane Charley, but forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say it&#39;s getting busy in the tropics.
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Tropical Storm Noel strengthened on  Sunday as it crept over the Caribbean and threatened to lash  impoverished Haiti with potentially deadly rains, U.S.  forecasters said.
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MIAMI - No rest for the hurricane weary and worried.  Eight days after the end of a surprisingly mild hurricane season and 13 days before winter begins, a private group of forecasters Friday predicted above average activity for the next hurricane season - which is nearly six months away.
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Tropical Storm Jeanne has become a hurricane, raising the threat to the Dominican Republic, Haiti and hundreds of islands in the northern Caribbean.
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The United States, which has emerged from this year's hurricane season largely unscathed, should brace itself for a potentially devastating hurricane season in 2007, a leading windstorm forecaster warned.
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The La Nina weather anomaly may form  in the equatorial Pacific in the next two to three months,  possibly increasing the risks for more hurricanes later this  year in the Atlantic.
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A team of forecasters on Friday predicted the Atlantic hurricane season will finish much more quietly than it began, but said the probability of additional storms remains higher than usual.
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HAMILTON, Bermuda  - The sixth tropical storm of   the Atlantic hurricane season, Florence, strengthened into a   hurricane in the open Atlantic on Sunday, U.S. forecasters   said.
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Hurricane season has battered Florida, but it's been more than kind to The Weather Channel, which posted its biggest ratings month in history for September.
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The next Atlantic hurricane season could produce up to 16 named storms, six of them major hurricanes, suggesting another active year but not the record pounding of 2005, scientists said Monday.
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Tropical Storm Noel strengthened on Sunday as it crept over the Caribbean and threatened to lash impoverished Haiti with potentially deadly rains, forecasters said.