Active 2007 Atlantic hurricane season is forecast
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The relative calm of the just-ended  Atlantic hurricane season will be just a short respite before  above-average storm activity resumes next year, a noted U.S.  hurricane forecasting team said on Friday.
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MIAMI -- Tropical Storm Florence formed Tuesday in the open Atlantic, becoming the sixth named storm of the 2006 hurricane season, and was likely to grow.
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The first Atlantic tropical storm of the 2007 season dumped rain on Florida and was due to make landfall late Saturday but was not expected to cause serious damage, US officials said.
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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 Colorado State University hurricane research team renewed its forecast for an "above average" 2007 Atlantic storm season on Thursday and predicted 17 tropical storms, with nine growing to hurricane strength.
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The deadly hurricanes that have battered the Southeast and the Caribbean this year may be a sign of things to come as climate change heats up the tropical oceans where such storms are born, scientists warned Thursday.
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The number of hurricanes churning through   the Caribbean toward the United States this year is likely to   be less than once feared and may even be less than normal, a   noted U.S. hurricane research team said on Friday.
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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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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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Hurricane expert William Gray downgraded his 2007 Atlantic storms forecast slightly Tuesday, but he still predicted above-average activity for the remaining three months of the season, with six more hurricanes, three of them major.
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A well-organized tropical wave in the  Atlantic Ocean about 300 miles east-southeast of the Windward  Islands could form into a tropical depression early Friday, the  U.S. National Hurricane Center said in a morning update.
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The sixth tropical storm of the Atlantic  hurricane season, Florence, formed in the distant Atlantic on  Tuesday and could become a hurricane as it moves toward the  United States, U.S. forecasters said.
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The prediction is for fewer hurricanes than last season. But it's still a perfect storm of hurricane-favoring conditions
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Tropical Storm Ingrid emerged over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, becoming the ninth named storm of the 2007 Atlantic season, the US National Hurricane Center said.
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The first hurricane of the Atlantic season steamed through the central Caribbean toward Haiti on Sunday, threatening to enter the Gulf of Mexico as an even stronger storm.
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A tropical storm bearing down on Florida formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, just in time for the official June 1 start of the Atlantic hurricane season.
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Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened over the Atlantic Ocean on Friday and U.S. forecasters said it may soon become a hurricane.