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Experts Predict Another Active Hurricane Season, More Impact on US

The hurricane season doesn't officially begin until June 1, but private forecasters already have issued their outlooks for the Atlantic Basin, predicting an active season and the potential for greater impact on the U.S. mainland than last year. The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season was the third most active on record in...

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...

Haiti 'Got Very Lucky' as Tomas Skirted Island

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 6) -- Hurricane Tomas pushed northward from Haiti on Saturday, leaving villagers to mop up, evacuees to return to their tents and most everyone relieved that the country did not suffer what could have been its first big disaster since the January earthquake. The storm's western track caused...

Hurricane Tomas Lashes Battered Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 5) -- Winds of up to 80 mph ripped through parts of Haiti today as Tomas grew from a tropical storm into a Category 1 hurricane. One of the hardest hit areas, The Associated Press reported, was Leogane, where flooding forced families who had already lost their homes in the earthquake to flee...

Cholera, Looming Storm Add to Misery in Haiti

(Nov. 2) -- First Haiti's infrastructure was ripped apart by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that killed 300,000 people and left more than a million homeless. Then a cholera outbreak swept through those refugees' camps, killing more than 300 people and sickening thousands more. And now it looks like a hurricane is coming....