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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...

Will Igor Be Another Fabian for Bermuda?

(Sept. 18) -- As residents of the island of Bermuda brace for the arrival of the dangerous Hurricane Igor this weekend, many are undoubtedly thinking of early September 2003 when Hurricane Fabian blasted the island -- and justifiably so. Hurricane Igor is eerily similar to Hurricane Fabian. The eastern edge of the eye...

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...

Tropical Storm Igor Path: Hurricane by the Weekend?

(Sept. 8) -- Hurricane Earl may have been somewhat of a bust as far as big storms go (much to the relief of residents of the East Coast), but that doesn't mean storm watchers have a chance to relax: Tropical Storm Igor, the ninth named storm of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, formed in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean at...

Background on igor

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (sometimes spelled Strawinsky or Stravinskii; Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, transliterated: Igorʹ Fëdorovič Stravinskij; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, and later French and American composer, pianist and conductor.

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