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But U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R- Pa., who has at least 14 commercial weather companies in his home state, according to The Associated Press, introduced a bill in April called the National Weather Services Duties Act that seeks to sharply restrict access to free weather information. With the exception of the "preparation and issuance of severe weather forecasts and warnings designed for the protection of life and property of the general public," the proposed legislation would prohibit the National Weather Service from providing any product or service "that is, or could be provided by the private sector." Everyone from emergency...

Hurricane Season Has Some Reconsidering Living In Florida POSTED: 11:44 pm EDT September 24, 2004 UPDATED: 7:37 pm EDT September 26, 2004 The latest hurricane to slam into Florida has some residents reconsidering whether or not they want to continue living in the state, according to a Local 6 News report. A Local 6 News exclusive survey found 31 percent of people asked said this year's storm season has caused them to think about leaving. However, 69 percent of those surveyed said no, that they have not thought about moving away from Florida. The storm sliced across the state Sunday...

Statement as of 5:00 PM EDT on August 27, 2003 Visible and infrared satellite images indicate that the low pressure center several hundred miles west of the Cape Verde Islands has developed into a tropical cyclone. Deep convection has increased and become more concentrated over the low-level circulation center. Therefore the system is being upgraded to Tropical Depression Ten. The depression is moving over sea surface temperatures slightly warmer than 28 degrees c and vertical shear appears to be fairly weak. Very gradual strengthening is indicated...and the levelling off of the Max winds shown later in the forecast period is...

TROPICAL STORM BERTHA Public Advisory Forecast/Advisory Discussion Probabilities Update Help -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 000 WTNT32 KNHC 050018 TCPAT2 BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM BERTHA SPECIAL ADVISORY NUMBER 2 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 630 PM CDT SUN AUG 04 2002 ...TROPICAL STORM BERTHA DEVELOPS OFF THE SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI GULF COASTS... AT 630 PM CDT...2330Z...A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COASTS FROM PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI WEST AND SOUTH TO THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER... INCLUDING LAKE BORGNE AND LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AT 630 PM CDT...2330Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM BERTHA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 29.4 NORTH...LONGITUDE 89.0...

Expect a hurricane season that is more stormy than usual but not as bad as last year, hurricane expert Bill Gray announced in a new forecast Friday. Gray predicted 12 named storms, of which seven will be hurricanes, three of them intense. That compares with a 50-year average of 9.6 storms, 5.9 hurricanes and 2.3 intense hurricanes with winds of 111 mph or stronger. The atmospheric scientist discussed his prediction Friday at the National Hurricane Conference in Orlando, and his team at Colorado State University released the forecast. Chances are about 50 percent higher than average that a major hurricane...