http://www.gulfcoasthurricanes.com Hurricane Ike and Hurricane Hanna Updates Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:49:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 72 http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx?seg=LocalWeather&Product=Forecast&Prodgrp=Forecast&Loc=kiah Sunny http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx?seg=LocalWeather&Product=Forecast&Prodgrp=Forecast&Loc=kiah An Alberta Clipper type storm will move from the Great Lakes to just off the southern New England coastline during the next 36 hours. The storm itself will http://www.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/headlines.asp?iws=1 Can it get any worse, you ask? We bet it will. Another big arctic air mass is about to surge into the eastern half of the nation, and temperatures will http://www.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/headlines.asp?iws=0 AFP - The Atlantic hurricane season in 2008 is coming to a close after producing 16 storms, including eight hurricanes, and inflicting record damage in the United States, a report by university researchers said on Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/hurricanes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081119/ts_alt_afp/usweatherstormseason Temperatures across much of the Southeast today will climb to near normal levels after overnight lows dipped into the 20s as far south as central http://www.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/headlines.asp?iws=2 The U.S. departments of Interior and Commerce today jointly announced the availability of the final Framework for the National System of Marine Protected Areas of the United States, completing a cooperative, multi-year effort to provide a comprehensive approach to the protection of the nation’s natural and cultural marine treasures. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20081119_mpa.html NOAA’s Fisheries Service today announced the state of Louisiana will be eligible for up to $40 million and Texas will be eligible for up to $7 million in disaster aid to restore and rebuild the states’ fish habitats and fishing industries devastated by hurricanes Gustav and Ike. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20081118_hurricanefunds.html NOAA’s Fisheries Service today announced that the states of Maryland and Virginia will each be eligible for up to $10 million to assist watermen who have been economically hurt by the commercial fishery failure in the soft shell and peeler blue crab fishery in Chesapeake Bay. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20081118_bluecrabfunds.html NOAA’s Fisheries Service today announced the states of Massachusetts and Maine will each be eligible for up to $2 million and New Hampshire will be eligible for up to $1 million in disaster aid to assist the shellfishing industries affected by this year’s closures due to the harmful algal bloom, ... http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20081118_redtidefunds.html NOAA’s Fisheries Service today announced that several Northwest Indian tribes and the state of Washington will be eligible for up to a total of $2 million to assist tribal and non-tribal communities affected by the commercial fishery failure in Fraser River sockeye salmon. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20081118_salmonfunds.html NOAA today issued a biological opinion to the Environmental Protection Agency that found three chemicals used in pesticides – diazonin, malathion, and chlorpyrifos - are likely to jeopardize 27 populations of salmon on the West Coast that are listed as either endangered or threatened. The opinion calls for buffer zones ... http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20081118_pesticides.html Expanding the use of seasonal to interannual climate forecasts, especially in drought-prone and semi-arid parts of the United States, can assist decision makers in the management of water resources, according to a new NOAA-led scientific assessment. The assessment is one in a series of synthesis and assessment reports coordinated by ... http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20081117_water.html Reuters - A tropical storm hit central Vietnam on Monday, threatening severe floods, landslides and substantial damage to coffee output from the world's second-largest producer of the crop. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/hurricanes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081117/wl_nm/us_vietnam_weather AP - Vietnam called its fishermen ashore and began evacuating 80,000 people from high-risk areas as a tropical storm churned toward the country's southern coast Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/hurricanes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081117/ap_on_bi_ge/as_vietnam_storm Reuters - Wildfires hop-scotched around Southern California on Sunday although calmer winds slowed flames that have destroyed almost 1,000 houses, forced tens of thousands to evacuate and turned some neighborhoods into scenes resembling war zones. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/hurricanes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081116/ts_nm/us_wildfire_california http://gulf-coast-hurricanes.blogspot.com/2008/11/world-has-never-seen-such-freezing-heat.html A major cold front will push well off the East Coast by Sunday, taking the warm, wet weather with it. Behind the front, gusty, west to northwest winds http://www.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/headlines.asp?iws=3 AP - Southern Californians weathered a second straight day of devastation Saturday as wind-blasted wildfires destroyed hundreds of homes, shut down major freeways and forced thousands of residents in the path of flames to flee to safety. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/hurricanes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081115/ap_on_re_us/wildfires Reuters - Fires whipped up by hot hurricane force gusts ringed Los Angeles on Saturday, charring thousands of acres and hundreds of homes in California's largest city and threatening the city's power supply. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/hurricanes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081115/ts_nm/us_wildfire_california