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Were Hurricane Forecasts Accurate or Hyped?

(Dec. 1) -- Government and private meteorologists were nearly in unanimous agreement with their early-season Atlantic Basin hurricane forecasts: This year was going to be fraught with danger. In the end, there were plenty of storms but little U.S. impact from the tropical season that officially ended Tuesday. So how...

A Hurricane Season for the Record Books?

(Sept. 16) -- The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season was nearly unanimously forecast to be extremely active, and a recent intense burst of activity, including the dangerous Hurricane Karl in the Gulf of Mexico today, has given merit to those predictions. In addition to Karl, the past week has resulted in two major hurricanes...

With Earl Gone, What's the Next Threat?

(Sep. 4) -- The Atlantic hurricane season doesn't peak until the middle of September, so even though former Hurricane Earl is not yet a distant memory, with what's left of the once-powerful storm moving through the Atlantic Canada, forecasters are already focusing on the next tropical threats in the Atlantic basin. No...

Earl Threatens US Coast After Hitting Caribbean

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Aug. 31) -- Hurricane Earl, now a powerful Category 4 storm, barreled toward the U.S. coast early Tuesday after battering tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and winds that damaged homes and toppled power lines. Earl is forecast to potentially brush the U.S. East Coast...

Hurricane Danielle Becomes a Category 4 Storm

MIAMI (Aug. 27) -- Hurricane Danielle became a Category 4 storm early Friday far out over the Atlantic as it headed in Bermuda's direction and threatened to bring dangerous rip currents to the U.S. East Coast. Danielle's maximum sustained winds increased to near 135 mph (215 kph) with some additional strengthening...

Background on earl

An earl is a member of the nobility. The title is Anglo-Saxon, akin to the Scandinavian form jarl, and meant "chieftain", particularly a chieftain set to rule a territory in a king's stead.

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