Hurricane Center Director Is Calm Force
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In the midst of a crisis, Max Mayfield sets his schedule in four-minute increments. That's the amount of time the director of the National Hurricane Center allots each media crew camped out in the bunker-like building where forecasts are drawn up. He sets aside an hour to help assemble regularly scheduled advisories, and pauses to take calls from higher-ups, including U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans.
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NASA's hurricane-damaged spaceport should be able to withstand the wind and rain from Ivan if the storm stays well to the west, the Kennedy Space Center's director said Saturday.
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A management warning has just been posted for the National Hurricane Center in Miami, often regarded as one of the government's most prestigious agencies.
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Hurricane Jeanne&#39;s erratic movements are keeping area weather and emergency officials on guard and hopeful its glance over the Carolina coast early next week won&#39;t bring major damage and devastation.
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Stormy weather is usually outside the National Hurricane Center in Miami. But it's inside the center for this year's hurricane season.
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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 bureaucratic storm buffeting the National Hurricane Center has ended.
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As Hurricane Charley whipped toward his retirement home, Burton MacLeod didn&#39;t budge, telling his worried family he was going to ride it out, no matter how hard the winds blew.
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The director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center was ousted on Monday and replaced temporarily by a veteran hurricane forecaster, a spokesman said.
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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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Nearly eight weeks have passed since the last tropical storm in the Atlantic-Caribbean region faded away, but banish any notion the 2007 hurricane season has been unusually slow and beware the coming months, experts say.
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Bill Proenza was on the job as director of the National Hurricane Center for less than a week when he delivered his first warning about the looming loss of a crucial forecasting tool: a rare satellite that measures winds during storms.
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The best Doug Mientkiewicz can say about his summer is that his Miami home has been spared hurricane damage -- so far.
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Storm weary residents of Florida and the rest of the Southeast can take a little consolation from the first forecast of tropical weather for next year.
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A veteran weather forecaster was named the new director of the National Hurricane Center on Friday.
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The director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, a critical government agency that issues hurricane and tropical storm forecasts, was ousted on Monday after a staff mutiny.
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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.