FORECAST OF ATLANTIC HURRICANE ACTIVITY FOR SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 2005

Following a record amount of June-July tropical cyclone activity and an active August in which Hurricane Katrina caused the greatest economic loss ever inflicted by a hurricane on the United States, we are continuing the bad news by predicting above-average activity for...

How to throw the best hurricane party (when it’s safe to do so)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts that "for the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, there will be 12 to 15 tropical storms, with seven to nine becoming hurricanes, of which three to five could become major hurricanes." With a forecast like...

Irene Expected To Become Hurricane But Remain A Fish Spinner

Yet another tropical depression (#9), forecasted to become storm Irene, forms in the Atlantic Thursday. It's still too early to forecast, but people all along the east coast should keep an eye on the projected path of this anticipated hurricane. It may stay over water and be...

Where's the real Surf City, USA?

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. - Far from Iraq turmoil, rising oil prices, and London bombings - and admittedly petty by all such comparisons - there's a new battle being waged in America's end-of-the-rainbow state. Mirroring other longstanding rifts that divide California north...

N.C. Hearing Opens on 1979 Klan Killings (AP)

AP - The widow of a communist labor organizer who died when Ku Klux Klan members opened fire at a workers' rally more than 25 years ago charged Friday that city and federal law enforcement knew the Klan planned violence but allowed the "government-sanctioned killings" to go...