Hurricane Weather

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Even though many county residents still are dealing with the damage wrought by Hurricane Ike last September, weather forecasters are warning hurricane season is upon us again.

The Pacific Ocean warming can be broken down into two distinct patterns, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers say. The finding could help improve North Atlantic Hurricane predictions. El Nino, the seasonal Pacific Ocean warming that affects the world's weather, may not be just one little boy -- it seems to be two little boys.

WESLACO -- Hurricane Dolly's trek through South Texas last summer is the likely suspect in a 12 percent drop in citrus production there, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service citrus specialist.Based on historical trends in citrus production here, the 2008-2009 citrus harvest should have been up by 5 or 6 percent from the year before, said Dr. Julian Sauls. Instead, it was down nearly ...

(ARA) - Weather forecasters are predicting that the 2009 hurricane season will be a "relatively normal" one for U.S. coastal areas, with a good chance that six to eight hurricanes will form in the Atlantic basin. Although hurricane season starts in June, activity usually peaks in September.

JAMES CITY — When the next hurricane hits, don’t flee.

An area of low pressure about 950 miles southwest of the Azores is not expected to strengthen as it moves east about 10 mph toward cooler waters, according to the National Hurricane middle in Miami.

Team Helps Predict Intensity, Tracks Of Storms Those of us who live in coastal areas where hurricanes are just a fact of life really appreciate these guys. Members of the Air Force Reserve Command's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron deployed to their detachment here recently to fly training missions over the Caribbean in preparation for the 2009 hurricane season.

National Hurricane middle forecasters are watching a low-pressure area of showers and thunderstorms close the Azores for possible development into the season’s first tropical storm.

By CORNELIA DEAN The New York Times Scientists have known for some time that El Niño, the warm spell that turns up every four or five years in the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, reduces hurricane activity in the Atlantic. But in a new study, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have linked a variant of that pattern -- periodic warming in the central Pacific -- to...