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TEXAS EXPERIENCES WETTEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD
2004 May Become State's Wettest Year
November has now taken its place in the record books as the
wettest November in Texas since comprehensive record keeping
began in 1895, and 2004 may also turn out to be the state's
wettest year. According to preliminary data from the NOAA
National Weather Service Southern Region Climate Center in
Baton Rouge, La., November averaged 6.08 inches of precipitation
across the state, surpassing the previous record of 5.71 inches
in 1902. Major cities throughout the state also accumulated
record November rainfall totals that ranged from three-and-a-half
to nearly ten times normal amounts (based on 30 year rainfall
averages).
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AUSTRALIA'S
GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK NAMES REEF IN MEMORY OF NOAA
SCIENTIST NANCY FOSTER — Nancy Foster, longtime
NOAA scientist and administrator, has been honored posthumously
by Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park with the naming
of a section of the world's largest coral reef in her honor.
Foster becomes only the second American so recognized, the other
is famed ecologist and author Rachel Carson for whom a reef
was designated in 1996. |
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AND PARTNERS REACH OCEAN OBSERVING MILESTONE WITH 1,500 OPERATIONAL
ARGO FLOATS; Devices Are a Key Element of Global Ocean Observing
System — NOAA and its partners announced that
1,500 free floating, data collecting devices are now in operation
in the world's oceans, reaching the half-way point of an eventual
fleet of 3,000 floats. The devices, named Argo, are now in all
parts of the world's ice-free oceans and are the backbone of
many nations' climate and weather programs. |
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PROVIDES WRAP-UP ON VERY ACTIVE 2004 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON
— The 2004 Atlantic hurricane season was one for the record
books, say NOAA hurricane and climate prediction specialists.
Nine named storms affected the United States during the six-month
hurricane season—three as tropical storms (Bonnie, Hermine
and Matthew) and six as hurricanes (Alex, Charley, Frances,
Gaston, Ivan and Jeanne). Three of the hurricanes (Charley,
Ivan, and Jeanne) made landfall as major hurricanes. |
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