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	International Hurricane Research Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The second 1947 hurricane was King (not to be confused with King of 1950), an October storm that struck Florida from the southwest and caused extensive flooding in Dade County.
		Hurricane Juan 1985: Though this hurricane was only at Category 1 intensity by the time it reached the panhandle, it is considered on of Florida's most costly hurricanes because Juan's tropical deluge caused 1.8 billion dollars of damage.
		Hurricane Opal 1995: On October 3rd the eye pressure was 965mb and dropped during the night to 916mb in less that 18 hours.
	www.ihc.fiu.edu /about_us/historical_hurricanes.htm (2228 words)

	Hurricane
		Hurricane winds can be as strong as 150 to 200 miles per hour (240 to 320 km/hr) and the storm circulation can be hundreds of miles across.
		Hurricane season begins in June, with the strongest and most persistent storms usually occurring in late August and early September.
		The hurricane seasons of 1995-2000 were the five most active on record - we can and should expect the present high level of activity to last for the next two decades.
	www.emergency-management.net /hurricane.htm (901 words)

	Hurricane - FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The extreme impacts from Hurricanes Marilyn (1995), Opal (1995), Fran (1996), Georges (1998) and Mitch (1998) in the United States and throughout the Caribbean attest to the high amounts of Atlantic hurricane activity lately.
		We have not observed a long-term increase in the intensity or frequency of Atlantic hurricanes.
		Hurricane Andrew's eyewall had less than 10 strikes per hour from the time it was over the Bahamas until after it made landfall along Louisiana, with several hours with no cloud-to-ground lightning at all (Molinari et al.
	www.cdresponse.org /hurricanefaq.htm (1705 words)

	The extremely active 1995 Atlantic hurricane
		The 1995 Atlantic hurricane season was a year of near-record hurricane activity with a total of 19 named storms (average is 9.3 for the base period 1950-1990) and 11 hurricanes (average is 5.8), which persisted for a total of 121 named storm days (average is 46.6) and 60 hurricane days (average is 23.9), respectively.
		Hurricane Luis was of particular interest during 1995 because of its long duration at IH status and its destructiveness in the Caribbean.
		Despite the lack of positive contribution of Sahelian rainfall toward the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season, the combined conducive effects of low vertical wind shear, low SLPs, warm SSTs, humid TPW, a westerly phase of the stratospheric QBO moderate and a La Niño event allowed for the 1995 hurricane season to be extremely active.
	www.aoml.noaa.gov /hrd/Landsea/95Season/index.html (8845 words)

	A World of Weather: The Hurricane
		The Atlantic Basin, which includes the North Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, is the source region for virtually all hurricanes that directly impact the contiguous United States.
		Hurricane Allison was such a storm, coming ashore near Apalachee Bay, FL, on June 5, 1995, the earliest that a hurricane has hit the contiguous United States in over 100 years of records.
		In this basin, the official hurricane season extends from June 1 until November 30, but it could be argued that there is a hurricane season within the hurricane season þ the peak activity of hurricanes spans from August through October (the period when tropical waters are warmest).
	www.ems.psu.edu /~nese/ch11sec2.htm (1117 words)

	Hurricanes
		At the time of writing (September, 1995), six hurricanes have devastated several of the smaller islands and most of the sugar crop of Dominica in what is already the worst hurricane season in 50 years.
		Fortunately, in the USA hurricane warnings can be made relatively early, and accuracy was reportedly improved by some 20%, (with drastic improvements predicted in NOAA's most recent homepage on World Wide Web) but nevertheless, some 200,000 people were ev acuated "needlessly" from the Outer Banks of North Carolina during the frantic 1995 hurricane season.
		The number of deaths which can be attributed to hurricanes in the Caribbean is shown in Figure 4 and includes estimates for the historic hurricane of 1780 responsible for over 20,000 deaths.
	members.tripod.com /Carib_Coastal/html/hurricanes.html (658 words)

	2003 Storm Season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Hurricane strength is driven by ocean warmth in the tropics and the difference in wind speed between that of the surface and higher up in the atmosphere.
		Hurricane Lili was the only one to reach land with hurricane force.
		Temperatures in the North Atlantic also have been warmer than usual, a harbinger of an active hurricane season, he said.
	www.floridatoday.com /!NEWSROOM/hurricane/hurricanestoryA52391A.htm (672 words)

	1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1987 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1987, and lasted until November 30, 1987.
		Hurricane Emily was the deadliest and most notable storm of the season, causing $65 million in damage (1987 USD) as it ravaged the Dominican Republic and Bermuda.
		The second tropical depression of the season formed in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico from a tropical wave on August 9.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1987_Atlantic_hurricane_season (1643 words)

	DR1 - Hurricanes
		This is the case of hurricanes Inez (1966), Beulah (1967), David (1979), Hortense (1996) and Georges (1998), Jeanne (2004) that have hit the Dominican Republic in the past 25 years.
		Hurricanes that come this way are usually born along the west coast of Africa and there is about two to three weeks between their start as tropical storms and their arrival at the DR.
		In their 1 September update, the university forecasters estimate that 2006 will have about 7 hurricanes (average is 5.9), 13 named storms (average is 9.6), 50 named storm days (average is 49.1), 13 hurricane days (average is 24.5), 2 intense (Category 3-4-5) hurricanes (average is 2.3) and 4 intense hurricane days (average is 5).
	www.dr1.com /weather/hurricanes.shtml (1198 words)

	CNN.com - Bermuda cleans up after Hurricane Fabian - Sep. 8, 2003
		On Monday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, reported Fabian was weakening as it continued to move toward the north Atlantic.
		Hurricanes are ranked 1 to 5 on the scale.
		Hurricane Arlene, a Category 2 storm, hit the islands with 100 mph (160 km/h) winds in 1963, and Emily -- a Category 1 with 90 mph winds -- caused millions of dollars in damage with a direct hit in 1987.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WEATHER/09/08/fabian (616 words)

	hurricane
		Hurricanes, storms, floods, and earthquakes are just a few of nature's forces that threaten people from industrial and developing countries.
		Hurricanes, one major category of natural disasters, are tropical storms that carry very high winds (74 miles per hour or more).
		The devastating results of Hurricane Floyd, September 1999, in the Carolinas and southern Atlantic states certainly proves the fact that the public should be concerned.
	www.unc.edu /~ddenton/hurricane.html (1191 words)

	Newswise
		Major hurricanes account for about a quarter of all named storms, but when normalized for population, inflation and wealth per capita, those storms cause about 85 percent of all tropical cyclone-spawned destruction.
		Gray and his colleagues foresee hurricane activity in 2002 to be more typical of the seasons of 1951, 1953, 1957 and 1969 which had moderate El Ninos and warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures similar to what is expected this year.
		Gray and his team will be issuing 2002 season update forecasts again on May 31 (to coincide with the official start of the hurricane season on June 1) and August 7.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view/?id=GRAY.CSU (1038 words)

	Hurricanes
		The hurricane season officially starts the 1st of June and ends the 1st of December.
		The 2005 season was the most destructive in recorded history, with 27 named storms and 14 hurricanes.
		"Even though we expect to see the current active period of Atlantic major hurricane activity to continue for another 15-20 years, it is statistically unlikely that the coming 2006-2007 hurricane seasons, or the seasons that follow, will have the number of major hurricane U.S. landfall events as we have seen in 2004-2005," Gray said.
	www.islandtimeholidays.com /hurricanes.htm (378 words)

	When and Where Do Hurricanes Occur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Hurricanes are generally a summer phenomenon, but the length of the hurricane season varies in each basin, as does the peak of activity (Table 2).
		Unless a hurricane name is retired and replaced by a new name, the list is recycled every six years (i.e., the names used in 1999 will be used again in 2005, the names used in 2000 will be used again in 2006, etc).
		Hurricane Camille (1969), with sustained winds of at least 180 mph, produced a storm tide of 23 feet in Pass Christian, Mississippi.
	weather.jsums.edu /hurricane.htm (15979 words)

	Late Hurricanes
		Then, along came two hurricanes that left forecasters scrambling, tourists stranded, and island residents in awe of the unpredictability of nature.
		Moving on ahead of their source, hurricane waves rode a storm surge of at least six feet onto the west coast beaches of the Lesser Antilles.
		The long-term impact of hurricanes may gravely affect tourist-dependent economic patterns, as potential visitors become aware that hurricanes may be annual events in our region.
	www.unesco.org /csi/act/cosalc/hurricane.htm (1175 words)

	FORECASTING SPECIALIST PREDICTS QUIET SEASON WITH FOUR HURRICANES
		If one of the nation's leading hurricane forecasters is correct, this will be a quiet year for tropical storms in the Atlantic.
		Hurricane Andrew slammed South Florida before swinging across the Gulf of Mexico to Louisiana and becoming one of the most destructive natural disasters in U.S. history.
		Six of his forecasts (1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991 and 1992) were quite accurate, two (1984 and 1990) were marginally correct and Gray himself labeled his 1989 and 1993 forecasts as failures.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940812/08120787.htm (885 words)

	WRC’s 2005 Hurricane Forecast
		Houston — It is hard to believe after the grueling hurricane season of 2004 that it is time again to start and prepare for the 2005 hurricane season.
		WRC’s Orbital Cyclone Strike Index [OCSI®] indicates the sections of the coast with the highest probability of a land falling tropical storm or hurricane in 2005 is the Texas coast and the west coast of Florida which both have a 70% chance of experiencing a tropical system this year.
		During the 20 year period 1985 to 2004, there have only been three years 1987, 1992 and 1999 when a storm or hurricane did not make landfall in the section of the United coast that had the highest risk.
	www.wxresearch.com /outlook/hur2005.htm (727 words)

	BBC News \| Americas \| Hurricane Gert menaces Bermuda
		Hurricane Gert has caused winds gusting at up to 120kph (74mph) in Bermuda, but the main force of the storm is forecast to pass to the east of the islands.
		Gert is the biggest storm to threaten Bermuda since Hurricane Emily in 1987.
		Earlier in the week Gert produced winds of up to 232kph (145mph), making it the fourth major storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/453572.stm (310 words)

	Hurricane Season Tools, Tips and Information
		It is hard to believe after the grueling hurricane season of 2004 that it is time again to start and prepare for the 2005 hurricane season.
		- Hurricane Gloria, a Category 3 storm, made landfall along the East Coast of the US - Hurricane Opal became a Category 5 storm in the eastern Gulf of Mexico but weakened to a Category 3 storm before making landfall on the west coast of Florida.
		This index has been used since 1985 to make annual forecasts of which section of North America has the highest risk of experiencing a tropical storm or hurricane.
	www.myhurricanecenter.com /articles/2005outlook.php (737 words)

	WGAL.com - Hurricanes
		There's just over a month to go in this year's Atlantic hurricane season, and so far, it's been a feeble one for the United States.
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	www.wgal.com /hurricanes/index.html (93 words)

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