Cyclone hammers Oman; veers toward Iran
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Cyclone Gonu battered Oman's coast Wednesday with fierce winds and torrential rains, forcing thousands from their homes and shutting down oil installations before heading toward the world's most important crude oil tanker route.
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Pakistani police fired tear gas to disperse a protest by some of the 1.1 million victims of a cyclone Friday, as fresh storms hit India and flooded villages awaited help in Afghanistan.
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Tropical storm Jeanne - the latest in a series of hurricanes and storms - veers away from the Bahamas.
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Tropical Storm Jeanne battered the Dominican Republic before heading to the Bahamas island chain where the tempest began to churn seas and stir deadly storm surges.
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Two cyclones battered outlying areas of three South Pacific islands with strong winds, heavy rains and large seas, but there were no reports of major damage or injuries, weather officials said on Wednesday.
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Omani authorities evacuate coastal areas as an unusually powerful cyclone bears down on the Gulf sultanate.
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Cyclone Gonu pummeled Oman on Wednesday,  halting oil and gas exports for a second day and forcing  thousands to flee the coast, but weakened as it moved through  the Arabian Sea, a major route for Gulf oil shipments.
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Hurricane Ivan slammed ashore today with winds of 130 mph, packing a powerful punch of waves and rain that threatened to swamp communities from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.
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Hurricane Ivan is moving through the Gulf of Mexico, with parts of Mexico and the US on severe weather alert.
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A powerful storm pounded California for a second day yesterday, flooding freeways and desert roads, tossing boats ashore and triggering a rockslide that blocked Highway 1 on the central coast.
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Hurricane John lashed tourist resorts with heavy winds and rain Wednesday as the dangerous storm marched up Mexico's Pacific coast, and forecasters predicted its center would brush close to land before nicking the tip of Baja California and heading out to sea.
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The most powerful typhoon to hit China in five decades slammed into its southeastern coast Thursday, destroying hundreds of homes and battering the region with rain and wind after more than 1.3 million people were evacuated, state media reported. At least two people were killed.
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The U.S. National Hurricane Center  upgraded Tropical Storm Ivo to a hurricane on Wednesday as it  headed across the Pacific toward Mexico&#39;s Baja California  peninsula.
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Tropical Storm Jeanne headed for the Bahamas yesterday after an assault on the Dominican Republic that killed 10 people, destroyed
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A tropical storm watch was in effect for eastern parts of the Canadian province of Newfoundland on Sunday as Hurricane Isaac churned through the north Atlantic.
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Tropical Storm Helene gained strength and   became a hurricane again on Saturday as it raced across the   Atlantic Ocean far from the U.S. coast on a track that could   eventually take its remnants toward Ireland, forecasters said.
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A powerful storm battered Southern California on Tuesday with wind up to 60 mph and a threat of up to a foot of rain, causing power outages and highway-blocking mudslides.