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They arrived last month and are still adjusting to their new handlers and the tropical weather.
Intent on savoring the tropical weather, Mr. Dean said he sought to create a place that unfolded in a succession of unique outdoor areas.
Typical townhouses in Havana were fitted with grand colonnaded portales (porches) to provide shade and shelter from the tropical weather, and rejas, metal bars, were secured over open window panes to protect against burglaries and allow for a freer circulation of air.
But in Hong Kong, which has comparable tropical weather patterns to Indonesia, nearly one in 500 arriving and departing flights have reported significant wind shear at the international airport since its opening in 1998, according to the Hong Kong Observatory's website.
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This could be important in Venezuela, where the weather is tropical and power supplies sometimes erratic.
Other horrors caused by global warming would decrease, such as tropical diseases, violent weather and famine.
Now, after two months of dry weather, tropical storm Linfa has turned the situation on its head.
Integral reactor systems -- including the reactor vessel itself, six steam generators, five primary coolant pumps, 12 isolation valves and more -- were stored outside for up to 18 months, exposed to highly corrosive tropical sea air and weather.
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He's a meteorologist and the tropical cyclone program manager of the National Weather Service headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, with us by phone now from his office there.
Flight 447 was passing through an area prone to volatile and dangerous weather known as the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone when it went down.
If we do nothing then Bangladesh sinks below the waves, Flipper gets barbecued on the tropical beach of Spitzbergen and Texas becomes uninhabitable for weather reasons not cultural ones.
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The Weather Underground site has a bunch of good tropical storm models and radar feeds.
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The National Weather Service had earlier said the combination of two weather systems from the polar and sub-tropical jet streams would produce a "potentially historic" storm.
In theory, therefore, the earth's temperature should be on the rise--with potentially disastrous consequences that could include inundated coastlines, drastically altered weather, severe disturbances to agriculture, and tropical diseases' pushing into new territory.
The IPCC report said tropical islands could be wiped out by rising sea levels while warmer weather could melt Alpine ski slopes.
Advances in satellite observations have narrowed down the error in the path and landing site of tropical cyclones, and improved the accuracy and precision of atmospheric-weather and ocean-weather forecasts.
Weather related issues made their mark as well, with hurricane Arlene becoming the first official tropical storm of the Atlantic Hurricane season.
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Before it became a hurricane, ripple effects from what was Tropical Storm Alex created six-foot (1.8m) waves, according to the National Weather Service in New Orleans.
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