Hurricanes as atmospheric safety valves and forecast advances
Dr. Robert Sheets and Project Stormfury researchers discuss hurricane formation, forecasting improvements, and potential cloud seeding to reduce damage. They explain how satellites, reconnaissance planes, radar stations, and coastal data support forecasts, with hopes of broader hurricane modification in the 1980s.
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Caribbean
South Atlantic
Brazil
Virginia
Air Force Reconnaisance
Biloxi
Miss
Stormfury
Sheets
How Hurricanes Form From Tropical Waves
An AP overview explains tropical waves forming from African-origin winds feeding storms in the Atlantic. It notes the hurricane season from June to November, the Bermuda High driving winds, and how a disturbance becomes a depression then a tropical storm before reaching hurricane strength. It also states about 100 tropical disturbances yearly, with around 10 becoming hurricanes.
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Pacific Ocean
Thane
Robert Sheets
Iapaneas
Florida
Gulf
Rom Oraa
Frank
United Bites
Caribbean
South America
Camera Huricane
Atlantic
Miami
Africa
North Atlantic
Iad
Flora the Deadliest Storms of the Century
The article recalls Flora as the deadliest hurricane in modern times, striking Tobago with brief warning in 1963 then stalling over eastern Cuba for days. It records seven thousand deaths and extreme rainfall. It also notes 1928 Miami, 1 800 drownings at Lake Okeechobee, and 1900 Galveston flooding with over 6,000 deaths.
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Miami
Flora
Tobago
Cuba
PeThe Heriane
Lake Okeechobee
Gulf
Galveston
Non-Existent Town Ends in Texas and Names in History
AP reports Beaumont officials abolish obscure Nashland Texas while Nashville Songwriters Association inducts Guthrie into its Hall of Fame. The piece surveys Atlantic storms from Camille to Eloise and notes Agnes remnants caused $3.5 billion in flood damage in 1972.
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Beaumont
Nashland
Texas
Jefferson ‘Commissioners
China
Camille
Gulf Coast
Gulfport
Miss
Celia
Corpus Christi
Cuba
Florida
Carmen
Lousiana
Eloise
Gulf
Florida Panhandle
Fort Walton Beach
Panama City
Anita
Agnes
Great Lakes
Pennsylvania
May School Grads Set Homecoming Activities
The May school plans a homecoming day with coffee and registration at 9 a.m. at the school. The May football team hosts Bryson at 7:30 p.m. followed by a dance in the Youth Fair Barns. A lunch, parade at 2:30 p.m., pep rally at the auditorium, and supper at 5 p.m. are also on the agenda.
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Bryson
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Ani
Maine
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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P.O
Pronedale
Crete
Wa Sun
Ludbeck Avalanche-Journal
Ee Uy. Ae Cake Record Center
Tusha Buildings, Inc
Toon
National Weather Service
Northwest
Ame
NOAA
U.S. Dept. of Commerce
Verve
Aie
Andy Anderson
Andy
Avenue Q
50Th Street
Redbud
Redbud Shopping Center
Quaker
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