Forecasters lower hurricane predictions
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The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season should be slightly less active than originally predicted, federal forecasters said Tuesday.
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The National Science Board urges the feds to bolster efforts to understand hurricanes. Despite huge storm-related losses, NOAA staffing is down 30 percent and the focus is on short-term forecasting, according to the report.
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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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A lively and sometimes scrappy debate on whether global warming is fueling bigger and nastier hurricanes like Katrina is adding an edge to a gathering of forecasters here.
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Watching for changes in the inner eyewall of a hurricane may help forecasters overcome one of their most perplexing challenges: predicting sudden strengthening or weakening.
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The surprisingly mild 2006 Atlantic hurricane season ended with a whimper on Thursday and forecasters said it was too early to know if El Nino will last long enough to flatten next year's hurricanes too.
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British weather forecasters, making their first public attempt to predict the Atlantic hurricane season, say it may be a little quieter than their American counterparts expect.
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A noted storm forecaster offered Floridians some good news on Friday as they mopped up from an unprecedented four hurricanes in six weeks by forecasting that the disastrous Atlantic hurricane season will go out with a whimper rather than a bang.
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A Pacific storm strengthened into a hurricane late Wednesday but it was expected to weaken, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Nearly two years after a botched response to hurricanes that devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast, the Bush administration said on Friday it was prepared to deal with what forecasters say could be a heavy storm season.
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Hurricane forecasters debate the usefulness of the &quot;skinny line&quot; in tracking maps, and look at more accurate alternatives.
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With the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season just a few hours away, researcher William Gray released his newest forecast Thursday still showing an expection for 17 major storms and nine hurricanes, five of them intense.
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CHICAGO, June 14  /PRNewswire/ -- At the Downes-O'Neill/eDairy 4th Annual Outlook Conference yesterday, noted climatologist Drew Lerner predicted that the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season would be marked by approximately 15 "named" storms, including nine hurricanes and three major hurricanes.
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By Ronald L. Littlepage  With the hurricane season now upon us, I know a lot of folks are hoping the big one doesn't come our way.  Me, too.  But I also know a lot of people are rooting for a couple of tropical storms, nice ones with not much wind and a lot of rain.
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A low-pressure area over the central Atlantic Ocean has "some potential for tropical cyclone formation" during the next day or so before winds become less favorable for development, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Thursday in a report.
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Friday, September 17, 2004 - After rising to Hurricane status and battering Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic yesterday, Tropical Storm Jeanne has been downgraded and continues to weaken, although experts warn it may regain speed in the warm waters
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Oil prices slid on Monday as a  hurricane in the Caribbean was downgraded to a tropical storm,  reducing the threat to U.S. Gulf oil facilities.