AP - Hurricane expert William Gray downgraded his forecast for the 2006 Atlantic storm season again Tuesday, predicting one more hurricane, two more named storms but no intense hurricanes.
Reuters - A noted hurricane forecaster on Tuesday
predicted the Atlantic hurricane season will see just two more
tropical storms and no more "major" hurricanes.
AP - Hurricane Isaac weakened to a tropical storm Monday as it raced across the north Atlantic toward Newfoundland, where the Canadian Meteorological Service upgraded a tropical storm watch to a tropical storm warning.
AP - Hurricane expert William Gray downgraded his forecast for the 2006 Atlantic storm season again Tuesday, predicting one more hurricane, two more named storms but no intense hurricanes.
Reuters - A noted U.S. hurricane forecaster said on
Tuesday there will be just one more hurricane this year, a
welcome relief after the devastation caused last year by
hurricanes like Katrina.
AP - Hurricane Isaac weakened to a tropical storm Monday as it raced across the north Atlantic toward Newfoundland, where the Canadian Meteorological Service upgraded a tropical storm watch to a tropical storm warning.
AP - Louisiana voters on Saturday approved consolidating the New Orleans area's levee boards, the generations-old agencies whose politically appointed members were criticized after Hurricane Katrina for failing to maintain the area's levees and floodwalls.
AP - A state medical organization on Wednesday came out strongly in support of the Louisiana physician accused of killing four critically ill patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Reuters - Desperate New Orleans-area
officials touted Chinese-made homes and building supplies on
Tuesday as a way to speed up the slow recovery of their
storm-stricken city.
