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Dade county with 3, 900 residents power knocked out. Hurricane Rita is the 7th hurricane to cross Florida in the last fourteen months. There have been 9 hurricanes in the Atlantic this year. Gov. Jeb Bush said in Tallahassee this morning that residents needed to heed forecasters warnings, saying Hurricane Rita was a very serious storm hitting the state.

Stock Investing Course (AXcess News) Washington - This year's hurricane season in the Atlantic is getting more attention than ever before, following the devastating losses last year in the gulf coast states. This year, forecasters are predicting four to six major hurricanes will form in the Atlantic.

“For the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, NOAA scientists predict 13 to 17 named storms with seven to 10 becoming hurricanes, of which three to five could become major hurricanes of Category 3 strength or higher, " said retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Ph.D., undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator.

Stock Market Game The season, which begins next week and ends in November, will yield 13 to 16 named storms in all, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said today. As many as 10 storms will strengthen into hurricanes, unleashing winds of 74mph or more, according to NOAA.

He was speaking to the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee as it discussed this year's hurricane season. "NOAA's prediction for the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season is for 13 to 16 tropical storms, with eight to 10 becoming hurricanes, of which four to six could become major hurricanes, " Conrad D. Lautenbacher Jr., NOAA administrator, said.

Stock Investing Game NOAA weather forecasters are predicting a milder hurricane season in the Atlantic this year than last, but 2005 was a record-breaking year and forecasters say that this type of weather pattern is here to stay for at least two-decades.

Since 1982, the Tropical Cyclones group has been developing specialized tools used by forecasters with weather satellite data using its Man computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS). The group forges techniques of use to forecasters, and for any major tropical storm its Web site transfers large amounts of data to researchers, forecasters and the general public. (During Hurricane Katrina, the site experienced 1.8 million hits.)

Journal Prime Rate Street Wall For the first time, NOAA forecasters are admitting that the unusually high amount of hurricanes off the Atlantic seaboard in the US are caused by the earth's global warming, saying that man's emissions of greenhouse gases are to blame.

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Stock Market News Other forecasters already had predicted another intense hurricane season as Atlantic Ocean surface temperatures remain warmer than average.

Stock Investing Basics "That's not good news, and the message is very clear: We need to be prepared,'' Max Mayfield, director of coastal and marine resources at NOAA's National Hurricane Center in Miami, said during a news conference.

Stock Investing Software Four major storms hit the US, including Hurricane Katrina, which submerged New Orleans and devastated the eastern Gulf Coast, causing an estimated $80 billion in damage and killing almost 1,600 people last year.

Stock Market Trading In New Orleans today, re-elected mayor, Ray Nagin, said the city was preparing for this year's hurricane season with planned evacuation drills. Other cities along the gulf coast are preparing for similar hurricane evacuation drills as well as hundreds of coastal cities and towns take heed of what happened last year.

Stock Investing For Dummy Last year set the record for total hurricanes with 15, topping the 12 hurricanes of 1969. The hurricane season, which officially ends Nov. 30, continued into the new year.

Stock Market Crash All but two of the last 11 years have produced above-average numbers of tropical storms or hurricanes as Atlantic Ocean temperatures have remained above normal. Conditions in the eastern Pacific Ocean also have increased tropical activity in the Atlantic.

Stock Investing Tip During the past five years, more major hurricanes already have hit the US than in any decade since the 1950s, according to NOAA data. If this year's forecasts are right, this may become the most-intense decade for hurricanes on record, eclipsing the 10 major hurricanes that struck the U.S. in the 1940s.

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