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Beryl: The little storm that smashed a big record
Beryl’s here, and she hasn’t broken much — physically. Once a tropical storm churning and gusting through the Atlantic with 70-mph winds, Beryl has now weakened into a depression, dumping buckets of rain all over the Southeast during...
Tags: Holiday Vacations, Travel, Trips and Vacations, Tropical Storms, American Legion
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Scientists observe 'tragic experiment' of tsunami debris
Jeff Larson has seen just about everything wash up on the shores of Santa Cruz: bottles, toys, shotgun shells, busted surfboards and fishing floats that looked like they had bobbed across the Pacific. When surging water driven by the magnitude 9.0...
Tags: Car Tires, Tsunamis, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Lifestyle and Leisure, Japan
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Subtropical storm Beryl may reach land by Memorial Day
Subtropical storm Beryl is about to rain on the Southeast's Memorial Day parade. A tropical storm warning was in effect along the coasts of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina on Saturday, the National Weather Service announced, as the second named storm...
Tags: Human Interest, Weather Warnings, Memorial Day, Meteorological Disasters, Weather
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The great Pacific garbage reality
For months, West Coast residents have been bracing for an onslaught of items drifting toward us since last spring's tsunami in northeastern Japan, which swept apartment buildings, cars, even entire villages, into the sea. Now we are seeing the first...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Japan, Fishing, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Lifestyle and Leisure
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Hurricane season 2012: Prediction calls for 'near normal'
The good news on the weather front is that Americans can expect a return to near-normal hurricane conditions this season. The bad news is that normal seems good only because recent years have been so tough. In predictions released Thursday, forecasters...
Tags: Meteorological Disasters, Mexico, Jane Lubchenco, Natural Disasters, FEMA
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Failing satellites jeopardize weather forecasting, report says
WASHINGTON — The number of U.S. satellites watching Earth is expected to plummet by 2020, and weather forecasting, including hurricane tracking, could suffer as a result, a new report warns. The study, released last week by the nation's top science...
Tags: Weather Science, Weather, Satellite Technology, NASA, Hurricanes
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Hurricane season forecast to be slightly slower
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Forecasting teams are calling for the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season to be slower than normal, although not by much. AccuWeather.com predicts 12 named storms, including five hurricanes, two with sustained winds greater...Tags: Weather Reports, Meteorological Disasters, Weather, Natural Disasters, Disasters and Accidents
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Tsunami alert: Don't cut that program
After last week's earthquake in the Indian Ocean, people in Indonesia responded far differently than they had seven years earlier, after another major quake: They evacuated low coastal areas to escape a possible tsunami. As it turned out, there were no...
Tags: Japan, Southeast Asia, Tsunamis, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Natural Disasters
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Fish frequently mislabeled in L.A. restaurants and stores
L.A. NOWTests on seafood sold at Los Angeles sushi bars, restaurants and grocery stores have revealed that more than half is not labeled correctly, a nonprofit organization is reporting.... -
Radiation races toward NASA spacecraft; it may be 'a good thing'
A solar flare that sparked a spectacular light show Monday took a convenient left turn. But although Earth is now safe from the impact of a solar storm, some NASA spacecraft are in the line of fire. A solar observatory that monitors space flares; the...
Tags: Greenbelt (Prince George's, Maryland), Space Programs, Solar Storms (2012), Science and Technology, Science
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Tsunami program cuts would leave California exposed
The Times’ April 18 editorial, “Tsunami alert: Don’t cut that program,” raises awareness of some unwelcome proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s tsunami program. The cuts, which amount to $4.6...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Japan, Tsunamis, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Natural Disasters
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Whale freed from fishing net off Palos Verdes
L.A. NOWA team of volunteers Thursday cut a gray whale loose from fishing gear it was tangled in off the coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, the second such rescue operation in Southern California in five days. Trained specialists used a......
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