Air France plane went down in region known as ‘birthplace of our strongest storms on Earth’Air France Flight 447 vanished in a zone of ferocious weather over the Atlantic Ocean known as the birthplace of some of the world’s strongest storms — just as the plane was encountering a 400-mile-long maze of lightning, hail, driving rain and fierce 100-mph updrafts. Hurricane center head urges end to ’skinny black line’ as 2009 Atlantic storm season beginsMIAMI — The “skinny black line,” long a staple of forecasts showing a hurricane’s projected path, could be a casualty of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season that began Monday. Tips for preparing for and surviving a hurricaneThe National Hurricane Center offers these tips in preparing for a big storm: Weather system that formed in the Atlantic has lost its tropical depression statusMIAMI — The National Hurricane Center says a weather system moving over the Atlantic has lost its tropical depression status. 1st tropical depression of season forms off mid-Atlantic coast; not expected to hit landMIAMI — The National Hurricane Center says a tropical depression has formed off the mid-Atlantic coast, but it’s not expected to threaten land. |
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