Quit call sparks storm at hurricane HQ
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About half of the staff at the National Hurricane Center have signed a petition calling for the center's new director to leave. They fear a public argument over hurricane satellites could undermine public confidence in their forecasts.
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It's tornado season, and at this Midwestern office that does lots of in-person customer service that means emergency evacuations are part of the routine.
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Employers went on a hiring spree in October, adding 337,000 new jobs, many of them for hurricane cleanup. The surge was the largest in seven months, a sign the jobs recovery may have taken hold.
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THEY had been urged to pray for a last-minute miracle as Hurricane Ivan, one of the most ferocious storms in Caribbean history, tore towards their vulnerable island.
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Weeks spent being buffeted by hurricanes have apparently made an impression on Florida residents &#151; electric generators are flying off store shelves.
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KEY WEST, Fla. - Before Florida could catch a breath from a furious hurricane double-whammy, residents of the Keys were sent scurrying under new evacuation orders Friday as yet another powerful storm was taking aim at the state...
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Hurricane Humberto and its drenching rains moved into Lousiana from Texas today after cutting power to thousands of customers in Texas and shutting down an oil refinery in Port Arthur.
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MIAMI -- A person who was staying in a Miami-Dade County hurricane shelter has been removed from the shelter after displaying symptoms of a serious and contagious disease.
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As Hurricane Ivan began to lash Jamaica with wind and rain, officials in Florida stepped up their evacuation efforts.
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MIAMI, July 3 -- Three senior forecasters at the National Hurricane Center called Tuesday for the ouster of the new director, Bill Proenza, saying he has damaged public confidence in their forecasts, fractured morale and lost their support.
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Thousands of people in an area devastated by a powerful typhoon last week in the eastern Philippines were told to evacuate Saturday after another storm slammed into the central part of the country.
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A U.S. government hurricane scientist has resigned from the United Nations' science panel on climate change because, he said, a lead author in the group had too strongly linked global warming to hurricanes.
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Florida - Hurricane Jeanne forced the evacuations of more than 800 000 residents on Saturday as it bore down on Florida with winds near 170 kph and threatened to strengthen into a major storm.
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THE DEVASTATION caused by powerful Hurricane Ivan in the Eastern Caribbean, and especially Grenada between Tuesday night and early yesterday, should compel those Jamaicans who have grown cynical over storm warnings to sit up and take note.
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Hurricane Jeanne forced the evacuations of more than 800,000 residents Saturday as it bore down on Florida with winds near 105 mph and threatened to strengthen into a major storm.
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ome hurricanes just won&#39;t quit, and American shores yesterday were in the crosshairs of two such long-lived, meandering tempests.
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The head of the high-profile US National Hurricane Center (NHC) was ousted on Monday following a storm of controversy over his harsh criticism of his employers and a near-mutiny by forecasters.