NWS Report: Pre-Isabel warnings needed more information
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STERLING, Va. The National Weather Service says public warnings in advance of Hurricane Isabel as it approached Virginia and Maryland last fall -- failed to include information important to homeowners and businesses in coastal areas.
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Spain's northwest Galicia region made preparations Wednesday for Tropical Storm Gordon, which was downgraded from a hurricane but expected to intensify again as it merged with another violent weather system, with winds gusting up to 80 mph and 30-foot waves, officials said.
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It now appears that Tropical Storm Jeanne was much more devastating than first thought. United Nations and local officials in Haiti say more than 300 people died in floods and mudslides caused by the storm.
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By The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  May 31--Ever since Hurricane Isabel battered Ocean View, Norfolk has gotten serious about protecting its beaches.
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An early warning system would have made all the difference. Instead of being swept to their deaths by the Dec. 26 tsunami, tourists in Thailand and villagers in Sri Lanka could have been alerted to run for higher ground. Even Sumatrans near the epicenter might have recognized the danger posed by a coastal quake and dashed inland.
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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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Is our mishandling of the environment to blame for  the well-documented increase in the frequency and  severity of hurricanes? The answer is unclear.
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By Lakisha Ladson, The Dallas Morning News Sep. 24--Fall announced itself Saturday with heavy rain, strong winds and lightning that together caused several minor car accidents, blew the roofs off buildings and started fires.
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By Maria Aspan  For 25 years, they have been talking about the weather nonstop. At The Weather Channel, which has its headquarters here, that talk once amounted to a reliable humdrum of forecasts and storm coverage in the United States and abroad.
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There have always been problems with distributing urgent public safety information. These problems show up, over and over, with every hurricane, tornado, flood and wildfire. At this moment in history, problems fall in three areas of responsibility (and, for that matter, responsiveness):  The old official channels (radio, TV, newspapers) are scaling back on live news coverage (or on news coverage, period) The new official channels (web sites and services, &quot;reverse 911&quot;) are still, as we've been saying since 1995, &quot;under construction&quot;.  The new unofficial channels (cell phones, blogs, RSS feeds, phone trees) are still no substitute for the Real Thing, whatever it will become. \
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Weather forecasters said there was a chance of rain yesterday. By 6 p.m., folks had to wonder if there was a chance it would ever stop.
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Relief workers in Haiti are warning about the growing desperation of flood victims in the aftermath of a tropical storm, Jeanne, that devastated the city of Gonaives a week ago, killing more than 1,100 people and leaving as many as 250,000 homeless.
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Business & money: Concerns that a fresh wave of hurricanes could hit American oil installations.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Indochina Correspondent May Ying Welsh. PHUKET, Thailand : The Thai government will set up an inquiry into why the public was not given early warning of the tsunamis, which smashed into the kingdom&#39;s southern provinces.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - A hurricane warning was issued for the South Carolina coast Saturday as forecasters predicted Tropical Storm Gaston would strengthen and make landfall near Charleston on Sunday night...
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A report shows, in block-by-block detail, that a big storm would likely flood large swaths of the city.
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By The Garden Path, Tim Elkner, Daina Savage  Editor's note: This gardening column is written by Daina Savage, Intelligencer Journal correspondent, and Tim Elkner, Lancaster County Horticulture extension agent.           Hurricane effect. Thank goodness for Ernesto residuals.