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          <title>Carbon Dioxide Emission from Fossil Fuels Rises Nearly 30 Percent Since Turn of the Century</title>
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The Global Carbon Project reports that increased CO2 emissions are loweing the ability of the world&#8217;s natural carbon sinks to absorb the gas.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:17:15 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Leonid Meteor Shower 2009</title>
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Skygazers could get quite a show early Tuesday morning.

The Leonid Meteor Shower peaks this year on November 17th.&nbsp; The shower begins on Tuesday morning at around 4a.m. with a sprinkling of 20 to 30 meteors per hour over North America.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:02:54 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Jellyfish May Become More Problematic in Warmer and Polluted Waters</title>
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This can have far reaching impacts&#8230; from fishing to swimming.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:55:23 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Water Found on the Moon</title>
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Man went to the moon in 1969 and ... forty years later, we find water.

For some, this is a big discovery.&nbsp; For others, not so much.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:24:49 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Paper or Plastic?&amp;nbsp; The Big Issue</title>
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Over the past year, the buzz about paper, plastic and reusable bags has grown louder and louder by the day.

In the past two years alone, four states have enacted mandatory plastic bag recycling.

But what&#8217;s the big deal?&nbsp; Why do folks care?

Well, as we get down to the bottom of the plastic bag, you might be surprised at what is found.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:52:20 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Wildfires</title>
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This weekend&#8217;s &#8220;Storm Stories&#8221; episode is on the wildfires that scorched thousands of acres in Texas back in 2006.

A lightning strike started the wildfire back then, but they can start in other ways too.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:51:14 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Please, Please Just Go Away</title>
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Sand gnats.&nbsp; They go by several names:&nbsp; No-see ums, punkies, blood-sucking vampires, sand fleas, etc.&nbsp; 

I don&#8217;t care what you call them.&nbsp; They are simply terrible, and I&#8217;m ready for them to go.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:16:48 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Record Rain Floods the Mississippi</title>
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The rain isn&#8217;t falling now, but it doesn&#8217;t matter.&nbsp; Parts of the central and lower Mississippi River basin continue to flood.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:09:58 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Road Kill</title>
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Thump, bump, crunch!

Road Kill.

This time of year can be extremely rough on the wildlife in our area.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:52:56 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Is Hurricane Season Done?</title>
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Unfavorable weather conditions most likely will lead to little if any additional tropical cyclone activity.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:20:12 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Not the Title We Want</title>
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The Savannah River is the most polluted river in the state and among the most polluted in the country, according to a report just released by Environment Georgia.

Higher toxic chemical loads were found only for the Ohio, New and Mississippi Rivers.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:27:07 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Can Cold Weather Make You Sick?</title>
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Drastic temperature swings are incredibly hard on our leafy plant friends, and it can even cause big problems for our pets.&nbsp; 

But can weather ups and downs make humans sick?

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          <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:51:35 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>The Float House</title>
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It&#8217;s called the Float House.&nbsp; And it could ride out New Orleans&#8217; floods.

This week, Brad Pitt&#8217;s Make It Right Foundation debuted the Float house, which aims to answer the challenge posed by the Big Easy&#8217;s flood risk.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:37:15 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>D&#45;Day</title>
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-Day.&nbsp; It was June 6, 1944.

Allied forces invaded France on the beaches of Normandy.&nbsp; It was basically the turning point of World War II.
 
And it almost didn&#8217;t happen&#8230;all because of the weather.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:58:14 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Time to Respond</title>
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The forecast is rain free, and it will stay rain-free for days.&nbsp; This is good news not only to us here in the Coastal Empire and Lowcountry, but it&#8217;s especially good news to those who saw recent flooding rains.

The American Red Cross began client casework today as preliminary damage assessment shows that nearly 2,000 homes have been affected by flooding in 20 counties in the Southeast.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:00:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Extreme Weather Theories</title>
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Justs imagine the unthinkable&#8230;a planet plagued by famine, disease and war.

It&#8217;s not a movie script.&nbsp; It&#8217;s actually a doomsday scenario that could be brought about by a disruption in the ocean&#8217;s currents.&nbsp; And this single event leads to drastic changes in our world&#8217;s climate.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:09:17 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>How to Survive Flash Floods in Your Car</title>
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The death toll just now climbed to seven when rescuers found a victim of flooding in Chattooga County.&nbsp; 
Two teen-age boys waded into the water Monday afternoon to help someone they believed was trapped in a Jeep.&nbsp; Both boys were swept away but one of them was rescued quickly.&nbsp; Volunteers and Chattooga County emergency officials searched overnight before finding the body of the second teen.

It&#8217;s all so sad and unfortunate, but some of these deaths could have been avoided.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:06:40 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Storm Chasers</title>
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Storms&#8230;they are dangerous&#8230;deadly&#8230;and even exciting.&nbsp; 

I chose this career because I am fascinated by weather, and I am one who enjoys watching storms&#8230;and even &#8220;chasing&#8221; them.

It&#8217;s an adrenaline rush.&nbsp; But it&#8217;s also an accident waiting to happen.&nbsp; But sometimes the real danger isn&#8217;t in the storms themselves.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:24:11 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Why So Quiet?</title>
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Just a few days ago&#8230;it was supposed to be the peak date for tropical cyclones in the Atlantic.&nbsp; But it has only bee quiet.&nbsp; Why?
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          <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:36:25 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Summer Isn&#8217;t Over Yet</title>
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I enjoy all four seasons, and I especially enjoy when it first begins to change.

But there&#8217;s one thing I am not ready to give up just yet&#8230;and that&#8217;s the farmers market at Forsyth Park in Savannah.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:12:27 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Good Earth:&amp;nbsp; School Lunches</title>
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Packing school lunches day after day, it can be a tedious and seemingly endless chore.&nbsp; But with more than 50 million children eating lunch in schools across the country every day, the real burden is on the planet.

But there are things you can do to help.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:40:40 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Growing Green After a Tornado Strikes</title>
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Making the best of a bad situation&#8230;

This is happening in a small south-central Kansas town.&nbsp; Working to rebuild after a deadly tornado in May 2007, mangled nearly every building in town.&nbsp; The new approach is for Greensburg to be reborn, &#8220;Better, Stronger, Greener.&#8220;
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          <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:25:02 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Turn on that Radio!</title>
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Down South, tornadoes often strike at night, when many of us are asleep.

For some of us, a tornado siren is enough to wake us up and spring us into action.&nbsp; But what about those who don&#8217;t live near a tornado siren?&nbsp; It&#8217;s a situation that presents a whole new problem.

So in an attempt to improve warnings, officials in Haskell, Arkansas, have been handing out weather radios, FREE OF CHARGE.&nbsp; But they&#8217;re encountering one problem.&nbsp; PEOPLE DON&#8217;T WANT THEM, even for FREE.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:26:02 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Calculate Your Water Footprint!</title>
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Understanding the how much, when and where your water is used!           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:27:50 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Preparing for a Flooding Event</title>
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Ready Georgia web site a nice tool to check out.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:56:16 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Mudslides Hit Mexico</title>
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At least 425 people have been killed, and 270,000 have been driven from their homes.&nbsp; Thousands of acres of cropland were destroyed.&nbsp; 

The mudslides of October 1999 became the worst disaster to hit the country in 40 years.

And many say the government didn&#8217;t respond quickly enough.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:32:32 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Tropics Showing Signs of Life</title>
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Nothing, absolutely nothing.&nbsp; It has been a quiet hurricane season so far, but things are starting to fire up.

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          <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:48:10 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Visibility &amp;amp; Tornadoes</title>
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When it comes to tornadoes, you can&#8217;t always see them coming.

Vegetation, rain, time of day and air quality all impact the visibility.&nbsp; 

Today in Glynn County, the public reported seeing a tornado near Jekyll Island.&nbsp; In this thunderstorm, excessive rainfall was falling, which would make it difficult for many to even see the tornado.&nbsp; This can the situation even more dangerous.&nbsp; Because if you can&#8217;t see something coming, you may not take action.

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          <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:25:29 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Ouch:&amp;nbsp; Jellyfish Invasion</title>
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Jellyfish&#8230;they are inflicting painful stings on swimmers along the shores of South Carolina and Georgia.&nbsp; 

Just yesterday, nearly 600 stings were reported on Tybee!&nbsp; This number is extremely high.&nbsp; 

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          <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:52:41 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Heat, What a Pain</title>
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Weather and climate can really affect how we feel.&nbsp; 

For example, many suffer from the &#8220;winter blues&#8221; every year.&nbsp; Many arthritis patients say they can feel the weather &#8220;in their bones.&#8220;&nbsp; 

Well now, some doctors say you can also feel the weather in your head.

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          <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:36:41 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>We Took a Hit Too!</title>
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Flooding, golf ball sized hail, downed trees and powerlines&#8230;yesterday&#8217;s storms wreaked havoc for many in the Lowcountry and Coastal Empire.

Even one man in Burton got struck by lightning.&nbsp; 

Here at WSAV, we too took a hit.&nbsp; And I have behind the scenes tour for you to check out!           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:11:07 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Quiet Tropics:&amp;nbsp; Telltale Signs of Trouble Ahead?</title>
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We are now winding down July 2009, and we haven&#8217;t even had our first tropical storm!!!&nbsp; The Atlantic Hurricane season is dead&#8230;at least for now.

We haven&#8217;t had a tropical storm, a tropical depression or even a strong tropical wave.&nbsp; It&#8217;s just amazing.&nbsp; 

The atmosphere just can&#8217;t seem to get going, and there&#8217;s nothing on the horizon for the beginning of August.&nbsp; This means the first two months of the season will end with NO activity.

So why is this happening?
Well, experts say there are two main reasons.
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          <title>Swimmers, be wary of rip currents</title>
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Nationwide, it&#8217;s estimated that 100 people drown from rip currents every year, and it&#8217;s NOT JUST IN THE OCEAN.

It can also happen in the Great Lakes.

Before moving here to beautiful Savannah, I worked in Michigan.&nbsp; And there is one event I will never forget.
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          <title>Seeing The Light, Then Turning It Off</title>
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Making sacrifices for the environment

During Lent this year, reverends called for a &#8220;carbon fast.&#8220;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:36:48 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Looking at Weather Observations and their Impact</title>
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Whether surface or upper level&#8230; obtaining critical current atmosphere data leads to the weather product you get every day!           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:00:14 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Tybee Ocean Rescue Spots Waterspout</title>
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An impressive waterspout was spotted this morning by the Tybee Island Ocean Rescue.&nbsp; The photo of the waterspout was taken by Lt. Todd Horne.

Waterspouts are basically tornadoes over water.&nbsp; They can have winds speeds up to 190mph, so they shouldn&#8217;t be taken lightly.&nbsp; They actually can be quite dangerous.

Some experts say that &#8220;a significant fraction of the so-called Bermuda Triangle incidents are from waterspouts.&#8220;

So&#8230;if you&#8217;re out in the water on a boat, would you know what to do if a waterspout formed?&nbsp; Here&#8217;s what to do.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:01:48 EST</pubDate>
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The 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak was a severe weather event that lasted from May 3rd until May 6th, and brought violent storms to Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Tennessee.

In this episode of Storm Stories, we focus on the May 3rd tornado that struck the Bridge Creek/Oklahoma City area.&nbsp; It was the most significant tornado of the outbreak, causing more than $1.1 billion in damage.&nbsp; Forty-eight people died during the outbreak.

This tornado was truly amazing.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:41:48 EST</pubDate>
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Space shuttle weather has to meet certain guidlines before taking off.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:40:43 EST</pubDate>
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Here it is mid-July, and the tropics are very quiet.&nbsp; And it looks like it will stay that way for a while.

One reason why it will stay quiet may seem a little strange.&nbsp; It&#8217;s dust.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:02:02 EST</pubDate>
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NASA is hoping to launch the space shuttle Endeavour Wednesday evening.&nbsp; This is all if showers and thunderstorms don&#8217;t force the space agency to scrub liftoff yet again.

Weather is THE greatest cause of space shuttle launch delays.&nbsp; Sometimes even just a few clouds or light rain can delay a launch.&nbsp; 
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This may help decrease hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:40:21 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Man Suffers Direct Fatal Lightning Strike</title>
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In July, more people are struck and killed by lightning than any other time of year.&nbsp; And unfortunately, another fatality was reported today.

In Melbourne Beach, an elderly man was fatally struck at the beach near Ocean Avenue after suffering a direct hit (according to WESH 2 News).&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:56:06 EST</pubDate>
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Eighty-three tornadoes in 17 states

It was the first major outbreak of the 21st century and the second biggest outbreak in November.

The 2002 Veterans Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak was large, widespread and rare.&nbsp; It started during the late afternoon hours on November 9th and continued through the early morning hours on Veterans Day, November 11th.

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          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:43:50 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Georgia Tech Study shows New Form of El Nino could Increase Atlantic Hurricane Activity</title>
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Increased numbers of landfalling hurricanes possible as well&#8230; study shows.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:48:26 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Go Green This July 4th</title>
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The holiday weekend is almost here, and July 4th is a time we tend to throw caution to the wind&#8230;take a moment to relax&#8230;and enjoy the long weekend and celebrate our country&#8217;s Independence.

That doesn&#8217;t mean that in our celebration we should forget about the environment.&nbsp; 

There are some ways you can go green and enjoy and eco-friendly July 4th.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:24:36 EST</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s hot and it&#8217;s humid.&nbsp; Most of us don&#8217;t want to leave the comfort of air conditioning.&nbsp; And if we do decide to get out, it better be the beach or a pool&#8230;anything to provide relief.

Well, try telling this to little kids.&nbsp; I know with my kids&#8230;once they get an idea, they will beg and beg to make it happen.

This even happens with going to the playground.&nbsp; But when it&#8217;s this hot&#8230;you have to put say NO because it may not be safe.

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          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:10:45 EST</pubDate>
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Nitrogen oxide emission rules may stiffen.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:07:48 EST</pubDate>
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At least 35 people including eight children were killed after they were struck by lightning in two eastern Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand.

In the state of Bihar, late-day thunderstorms killed 18.&nbsp; In one incident, children were playing in the downpours, only to be struck by a cloud-to-ground bolt.&nbsp; Six children died.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:33:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Lightning Safety:&amp;nbsp; Safe Shelters &amp;amp; Indoor Safety</title>
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When it comes to lightning, a house or other substantial building offers the best protection.

But when it comes to assessing the safety, it&#8217;s more important to consider what happens if the structure gets struck by lightning rather than whether the structure will be hit by lightning.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:16:40 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Lightning Safety:&amp;nbsp; How to Plan</title>
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It&#8217;s Lightning Safety Awareness Week, and today&#8217;s topic is all about lightning safety outdoors.

During the summer, we all tend to take advantage of the warm weather&#8230;boating, swimming, fishing, bicycling, golfing, jogging, walking, hiking, camping or working outdoors.&nbsp; It&#8217;s fun, but we all need to play it safe too.

Being outdoors when thunderstorms are nearby involves risk, and certain locations are worse than others.&nbsp; Last year in the United States, those who were struck by lightning and then died&#8230;100 percent happened outside.&nbsp; Nearly 32% occurred under a tree, 29% on beaches or water, another 29% in open fields, and about 10% in unsafe pavilions or open shelters.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:04:59 EST</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s Lightning Awareness Week, and I realize it may not be all that exciting to some&#8230;but it should be.

I have seen firsthand what lightning can do.&nbsp; I even have a friend who has been struck twice.&nbsp; Where&#8217;s the luck there, right?

Well, more than o1000 people get struck by lightning each year in the United States, and more than 100 of them die as a result of the strike.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:18:09 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>&#8220;JAWS&#8221; It&#8217;s Not</title>
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This past weekend, I was lucky enough to spend it on Hilton Head Island.&nbsp; Such a beautiful place!

Well, while it was really hot at the beach, the water was perfect.&nbsp; Perfect&#8230;until a lifeguard starting yelling at everyone to get out.&nbsp; Sharks were spotted.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:09:47 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Stay on Your Tippy Toes</title>
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Okay, I love the beach.&nbsp; Love it.&nbsp; Love to relax, get in the water, get a tan (I know that&#8217;s bad) and hang out with friends.

But there is one thing that isn&#8217;t so easy to handle&#8230;and that is hot sand.&nbsp; On Sunday, I couldn&#8217;t walk without either running on my tippy toes or yelling&#8230;as if that helps.&nbsp; And everyone was doing this.&nbsp; I also heard the question many times&#8230;why is the sand so hot today?&nbsp; Well, here is your answer.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:35:38 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Cape Hatteras Rescue:&amp;nbsp; Rogue Waves</title>
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For hundreds and hundreds of years, sailors have been telling stories of encountering monstrous ocean waves, which tower over one hundred feet in the air and toss ships about like corks.

In the past, oceanographers discounted these reports as tall tales&#8212;-just embellished stories of mariners with too much time at sea.

But not anymore.

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          <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:45:28 EST</pubDate>
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So far this year, ten people have been killed by lightning.&nbsp; And these deaths have happened in nine states.

Just two days ago on June 8th, a lightning strike killed a landscaper in Florida.&nbsp; 

Authorities say a South Florida landscaper was trying to squeeze in a few more minutes of mowing before an intense thunderstorm hit.&nbsp; 

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          <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:44:35 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Strange &#8220;Squid&#45;Like&#8221; Lightning:&amp;nbsp; Who Knew?</title>
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Over the weekend, an atmospheric scientist in Europe photographed something that resembled a giant luminous squid floating over a thundercloud in France.

Just look at the picture above.&nbsp; It really does look like a jellyfish!

Well, it&#8217;s obviously not.

It was a strange form of lightning known as a &#8220;sprite.&#8220;&nbsp; They are red, fleeting and tend to come in bunches.

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          <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:34:25 EST</pubDate>
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Air France Flight 358&#8230;it was a flight from Paris, France, to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The flight started fine.&nbsp; But when it tried to land in a powerful storm, all went wrong.

Witnesses say lightning may have struck the plane.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Hot Fake:&amp;nbsp; E&#45;Cigarettes</title>
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It looks like the real thing, and it feels like the real thing&#8230;but it&#8217;s not.&nbsp; Well, this isn&#8217;t stopping celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio from using them.

They are called e-cigarettes.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:37:14 EST</pubDate>
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&#8220;When it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don&#8217;t seem to be able to handle things.&#8220; &#8212;President Barack Obama, on his children&#8217;s school in Washington, D.C., being canceled because of icy conditions in January.&nbsp; Natives of Chicago, where schools rarely close even in the harshest weather, the Obamas were not yet familiar with &#8220;snow days.&#8220;

While I tend to agree with the President, I also know weather can do just about anything.&nbsp; Sometimes we can handle it, and sometimes we can&#8217;t.&nbsp; And this isn&#8217;t only true for humans or location.

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          <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 21:10:57 EST</pubDate>
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From free-fall jumps into stormy seas&#8230;to endless training exercises, Coast Guard rescue swimmers are an elite group.&nbsp; When trouble happens, they are always ready to go.

There are more than 200 stations throughout the country, and it&#8217;s here where the Coast Guard maintains a state-of-the-art fleet of ships and helicopters.

Despite all of this high-tech equipment, sometimes, the only way to save lives is to put a swimmer in the water.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 21:28:15 EST</pubDate>
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Lions Club International:&nbsp; Community Is What We Make It

Today, I had the pleasure to speak at the Savannah Lions Club meeting at the Savannah Golf Club.&nbsp; What a great group of folks!&nbsp; I definitely did my share of laughing, as this was a group of quick-witted women and men.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 16:27:55 EST</pubDate>
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This isn&#8217;t breaking news or anything, but I still found it an interesting study.

Appearance plays a bigger role in women&#8217;s tanning habits than it does in men&#8217;s.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 17:20:36 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Hot Weather=More Infections</title>
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Winter is to the flu as summer is to&#8230;bacterial infections!

Summertime and the living is easy?&nbsp; Don&#8217;t believe it.&nbsp; The summer is filled with hazards that threaten those lazy, hazy days.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 15:37:06 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Gloomy Weather:&amp;nbsp; Problem for All Ages</title>
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Okay, I know this weather pattern is pretty awful.&nbsp; 

We have seen 14 consecutive days of rain in the Savannah metro area, and we will likely add to this number.&nbsp; The current rainfall record for May is 11.13 inches in 1915.&nbsp; And we are well on our way to breaking this record.&nbsp; 

But who wants to break this record?&nbsp; Not me and definitely not my daughter.&nbsp; I have a two year old named Carson, and she has been wearing her bikini for the past 36 hours.&nbsp; She wouldn&#8217;t even take it off to go to bed!!!&nbsp; She is determined to get to the beach this weekend, but it&#8217;s not going to happen.&nbsp; Try explaining this to one determined little girl.

Well&#8230;this pain is shared by many this weekend.&nbsp; And I have been searching and searching online for something positive to report about gloomy weather, and I found one that caught my attention.
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Central Texas is often called &#8220;Flash Flood Alley&#8221; because of its frequent, intense storms.&nbsp; The &#8220;big ones&#8221; seem to happen every decade.

November 15, 2001

A slow-moving storm system stalled over central Texas, west of Austin, and waves of rain and thunderstorms began to sweep up the I-35 corridor.&nbsp; Widespread rainfall totals typically ranged from five to eight inches, but radar based estimates indicate that some areas may have received 15 inches of rain.&nbsp; Much of this rain fell within the space of six hours.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Don&#8217;t Tempt Lightning</title>
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It&#8217;s a holiday weekend, and many of us will spend at least some of it outdoors.&nbsp; But please remember&#8230;there&#8217;s also a decent chance of showers and thunderstorms, and we need to play it safe.

No one thinks they will ever be struck by lightning, but it happens and it could happen to you.

Lightning is dangerous.&nbsp; It can maim or kill a person with ease.

Here are the top ten states for lightning fatalities.
1.&nbsp; Florida
2.&nbsp; North Carolina
3.&nbsp; Michigan
4.&nbsp; Pennsylvania
5.&nbsp; New York
6.&nbsp; Texas
7.&nbsp; Ohio
8.&nbsp; Colorado
9.&nbsp; Georgia
10.&nbsp; Tennessee
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          <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 16:48:10 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2009 Hurricane Forecast Looks Normal&#8230;Maybe</title>
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The first tropical storm this year will be christened Ana.&nbsp; Then after Ana, there could be fourteen more.

The U.S. government&#8217;s meteorologists today released a forecast of a &#8220;near-normal&#8221; number of tropical storms and hurricanes this season.&nbsp; But scientists with NOAA&#8217;s National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center say the 2009 forecast is tricky.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 14:34:27 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Something in the Air?&amp;nbsp; Maybe Not.</title>
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Sunday&#8217;s Blue Angels Air Show in Beaufort, South Carolina, wasn&#8217;t just a chance for me to tote my family across state lines to see and hear the spectacle.

No, it was my time to go up in &#8220;Fat Albert,&#8220; the flagship of the Blue Angels.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 18:03:33 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Not for the Faint of Heart</title>
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Keep Looking Up!&nbsp; It has been my catch phrase for a few years now.&nbsp; But sometimes to keep looking up, you must also look down.

This weekend is the Beaufort Air Show where the Blue Angels will perform, and I will ride aboard a C-130T Hercules transport plane, dubbed &#8220;Fat Albert Airlines.&#8220;

I have been told this flight is not is for the faint of heart.
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve flown in some storms, but that day was the worse that I&#8217;d seen.&#8220;&#8212;Frank Flood

Here in the Coastal Empire and Lowcountry, we rarely ever seen snow.&nbsp; So when it does fall, it&#8217;s quite an occasion.&nbsp; Well just up the coast, the situation isn&#8217;t all that different.&nbsp; 

On Thursday, January 23, 2003, unusually harsh winter weather moved over North Carolina&#8217;s intracoastal waterway.&nbsp; An Arctic blast spawned a storm system along the edge of the Gulf Stream, and it produced one of the heaviest snowfalls to ever hit North Carolina&#8217;s coast.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a snowfall that brought Elizabeth City&#8217;s 17-thousand residents to a standstill.

It&#8217;s a storm that caused problems onshore and off.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:43:49 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Raise the Roof&#8230;.and Everything Else</title>
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&#8220;If you can&#8217;t beat &#8216;em, join &#8216;em.&#8220;

That seems to be what some Venetian officials are saying about rising waters that are threatening the very existence of their city.&nbsp; 

It&#8217;s a problem that has to be addressed, and it has to be addressed soon.

The current project is to build barriers to block the flood waters.&nbsp; But there&#8217;s a new plan on the table.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a strategy that would actually raise the city&#8217;s buildings to stay ahead of the climbing sea levels.

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          <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:27:52 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Lightning Safety&#8230;What You Need to Know NOW!</title>
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It&#8217;s getting to be that time of year when thunderstorms fire up almost every single day.&nbsp; While not every thunderstorm becomes &#8220;severe,&#8220; every thunderstorm is dangerous.

Just yesterday, I was tracking a storm cell in the Jasper and Beaufort County area.&nbsp; Within just an hour, our Live Titan Radar tracked nearly 700 lightning strikes.&nbsp; And these lightning strikes caused their share of problems.

According to our media partner The Island Packet, firefighters across Beaufort County stayed very busy.&nbsp; A Blufton man was struck by lightning but wasn&#8217;t seriously injured.&nbsp; We are told the man was standing next to a tree.

In another incident, Bluffton Township Fire District firefighters battled a blaze in Belfair Plantation on Manchester Court. That fire was likely started by a lightning strike and destroyed the home&#8217;s attic, Lt. Robert Payne said. Investigators were on the scene Tuesday night to determine the cause of the blaze, but the home is likely a total loss, he said. 

Some of these problems are unavoidable.&nbsp; But there are things you can do to stay safe.

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          <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 17:03:52 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Ancient Tsunami Hit New York City?</title>
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A giant wave crashed over New York City 2300 years ago&#8230;at least that what some scientists are now saying.

It&#8217;s a claim that sounds like a scene out of a sci-fi thriller.&nbsp; But these scientists say they have proof.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 16:36:50 EST</pubDate>
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Folks in Alabama are cleaning up today after severe storms struck the area this past weekend.&nbsp; It&#8217;s confirmed that an EF-0 tornado with 75 mph winds hit in Shelby County&#8217;s Brook Highlands community.&nbsp; But it&#8217;s another weather phenomeon, called a derecho, that also caused its share of damage.

A derecho is a widespread and long-lived straight line wind storm associated with a fast-moving squall line, and it produces winds stronger than 58mph.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 19:27:57 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Will Weather Affect the Derby?</title>
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For some folks, it&#8217;s the most exciting two minutes in sports.&nbsp; Who will win the Kentucky Derby?

Only 3-year-old thoroughbreds run for the roses, so a horse only gets one shot.&nbsp; 

Just about anything can determine the outcome of a horse race, such as the weather, equipment changes, jockey changes or starting positions.&nbsp; Even the crowd can have an affect on the horses.&nbsp; But out of all these, it&#8217;s weather that&#8217;s getting the most attention this time around.

A stalled front will keep the weather rather unsettled in Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday with periods of rain.

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          <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 15:48:07 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Bite This</title>
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Insect bites and stings&#8230;they are an inevitable part of life&#8230;at least here in the Coastal Empire and Lowcountry.&nbsp; But it doesn&#8217;t mean you have to suffer in silence.

I shared only last week or so that I am a mosquito magnet, and I have the bites to prove it.&nbsp; Well, just imagine my surprise, when I found the coolest products ever&#8230;products that are made right here in Savannah!

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          <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:23:19 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Energy Social Event</title>
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For the most part, I am always up for a party or at least some kind of social gathering.&nbsp; I&#8217;m also into energy conservation.&nbsp; 

Well these days, you can do both at the same time.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:03:53 EST</pubDate>
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A Lawrence, Kansas, man died this past Saturday after he was struck by a bolt of lightning as he and six companions rode their motorcycles through a rainstorm, the Lawrence Journal-World reported.

Troy Gentzler, 45, was killed shortly after visiting an abuse victim for the northeast Kansas chapter of Bikers Against Child Abuse.

The bolt struck as the group was traveling between the towns of Grantville and Perry.

&#8220;You can sum it up in one word:&nbsp; bizarre,&#8220; Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Herrig told the newspaper.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:23:02 EST</pubDate>
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An out-of-control woods fire is raging in Horry County, South Carolina.&nbsp; This is a coastal county that includes one of the state&#8217;s most popular tourist spots, Myrtle Beach.

While this particular fire is unusual, it&#8217;s actually not unusual to see more fires this time of year.&nbsp; In spring and early summer, we all want to get outdoors to either have a good time or simply just work in the yard.&nbsp; Grass burning and spring cleanup fires occasionally escape control and result in wildfires.&nbsp; When summer arrives, the number of people in the woods increases and as they travel, recreationalists can accidentally cause fires.

Now most of us have no intention of setting a fire that could burn hundreds of homes, millions of acres of forest and affecting thousands of lives.&nbsp; Each year, however, we learn of devastating wildfires caused by careless behavior.&nbsp; 
Examples of ways YOU could unintentionally start a wildfire
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          <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:00:34 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Ten Easy Ways to Go Green</title>
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First, Happy Earth Day!&nbsp; 

It seems like everyone is getting involved these days, or at least trying to get everyone involved.&nbsp; But let&#8217;s admit it&#8230;some of the advice can seem a little overwhelming for some.&nbsp; But it doesn&#8217;t have to be.&nbsp; Here are ten easy no or low cost ways to lessen your impact on the planet, create a healthier house and garden and even fatten your wallet.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:04:32 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>$15 Million Eco Makeover</title>
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Earth Day has been observed on April 22nd for 40 years now.&nbsp; And when it comes to making a difference, every single human being can decrease production of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by thousands of pounds each year.

To do this not only saves our planet, but it can save you money.&nbsp; Examples include not driving so fast or ditching the car completely.&nbsp; Think of what you could save on gas alone!

But when it comes to celebrities&#8230;saving money isn&#8217;t always the motivation.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:23:35 EST</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s mosquito season, and I feel as though I am one of the main attractions every single year for the blood suckers!&nbsp; It must be body chemistry or something because I have tried everything, and yet I am once again covered with bites.

But&#8230;I will keep doing my research, and I did manage to find some new ideas.

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          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:33:00 EST</pubDate>
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Looking for something to do this weekend?&nbsp; We have a great forecast, and it&#8217;s just begging you get outside.&nbsp; And one way you can is to go to Savannah&#8217;s annual environmental celebration.&nbsp; This year&#8217;s theme is a timely one:&nbsp; Be Green, Save Green.

The 2009 Earth Day Savannah Festival will be held in Forsyth Park on Saturday, April 18th, from 8a.m. to 3p.m., where you&#8217;ll find educational and entertainment opportunities for the entire family.&nbsp; You&#8217;ll also have the chance to recycle paint, tires and more.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:34:32 EST</pubDate>
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&#8220;You could take all of our cows together and they probably wouldn&#8217;t have the same effect on the atmosphere than the average traffic jam on the Tappan Zee Bridge.&#8220; 
&nbsp;  &nbsp; &#8212;Peter Gregg, spokesman for the New York Farm Bureau (NYFB)

Cow Tax.&nbsp; To ranchers, these are two of the most absurd and terrifying words in the English language.

There&#8217;s a rumor going around that the Environmental Protection Agency was considering a tax on methane in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.&nbsp; As you can imagine, this rumor isn&#8217;t sitting well in the farming community.

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          <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:24:07 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Driving in the Rain, Not Fun</title>
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I&#8217;m just back from vacation, ready to jump into work&#8230;sort of!&nbsp; 

I spent a few days at the beach in Alabama, spending time with family.&nbsp; I did, however, stay connected through email, facebook and even twitter.&nbsp; One of my facebook buddies wrote me and said that I missed big weather this past Saturday and Monday.&nbsp; Well, this is only partly true.&nbsp; I wasn&#8217;t on TV covering it.&nbsp; No, instead, I was driving through it.&nbsp; Two toddlers in the backseat, my hands gripping the steering wheel, body tense&#8230;it was unlike any rain I have ever driven through, and I was scared.

Obviously, I handled it, since I am writing you right now.&nbsp; But I did notice that lots of other drivers could use a little bit of help.&nbsp; Isn&#8217;t that nice of me to point out that others could use some help?!?&nbsp; Seriously, I would like to provide a list of seen mistakes.&nbsp; And I will focus more on what to do instead of what not to do.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:27:43 EST</pubDate>
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April typically brings very active weather across the southeast and this year has been no exception.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:24:34 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Stranded with Sharks</title>
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Let&#8217;s face it.&nbsp; It&#8217;s unlikely any of us will ever be stranded at sea.&nbsp; But then again, it does happen and could happen to you.&nbsp; And if it did happen to you, would you know how to survive?

In this episode of Storm Stories, we take you back to 1982 when a storm sinks a yacht off the Atlantic Coast.&nbsp; The surviving crew members fight to stay alive without food or water, all the while surrounded by sharks.

It didn&#8217;t take long for some of the crew members to become delusional, and this ultimately led to their deaths.

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          <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:43:21 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>A Natural Performance Boost</title>
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Obviously, I enjoy nature&#8230;I mean it is my job to try and forecast it.&nbsp; I will, however, admit that I do have my limits.&nbsp; 

For example, when it comes to camping, I prefer a motor home with air conditioning and a bathroom over sleeping in a tent.&nbsp; This way I can pick and choose how much I interact with the outdoors.

Well, some experts say it&#8217;s time to interact even more with nature all because it enhances mental productivity.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:54:32 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Warm Weather Increases Pink Eye Cases</title>
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Red, itchy eyes&#8230;eyelids stuck shut when you wake up&#8230;
Both of my kids developed all of the symptoms this weekend and have officially been diagnosed with pink eye, the non-medical term for conjunctivitis.&nbsp; 

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          <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:41:53 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Las Vegas Floods</title>
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We all know it doesn&#8217;t take that much rain to cause flooding here in the Coastal Empire and Lowcountry.&nbsp; Well, the same holds true for Las Vegas, Nevada.&nbsp; It&#8217;s here where they&#8217;re spending more than $1 billion over the next 25 years to control flooding.

For Las Vegas, flash flood season runs from July through September.

Flash flooding has caused millions of dollars in damage in recent years.&nbsp; In August of 2004 and January of 2005, the Las Vegas Valley experienced flash flooding with areas sustaining heavy damage.

Another disasterous and damaging flood hit the northwest part of the Las Vegas Valley on August 19, 2003, causing millions of dollars in damage.&nbsp; Brief but intense thunderstorms flooded parts of the city, creating harrowing scenes in which police helicopters skirted power lines to pluck stranded motorists from the rushing water.&nbsp; 

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          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:09:32 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Black Car Ban in California?</title>
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Getting a new car&#8230;it&#8217;s exciting for anyone, especially when you get to pick out what you want.&nbsp; I remember when I turned 16 I just had to have a red car.&nbsp; Now though my preference is white or black, either one would be fine with me!&nbsp; But if I move to California, this decision could be made for me.

Black cars could be bad for the environment.&nbsp; At least that&#8217;s what some experts claim&#8230;
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          <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:54:18 EST</pubDate>
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Spring planting season, it&#8217;s here!&nbsp; And this year, I decided to get involved.&nbsp; I know it may not sound like a big deal to most, but to me it is.&nbsp; I have killed every plant I have ever had!!!&nbsp; And I have never planted anything outside.&nbsp; This meant I had to do my research.

One good friend said don&#8217;t plant the flowers upside down and don&#8217;t forget to water them!&nbsp; Nice.&nbsp; While gardening may not be rocket science, I believe it does take a certain skill.

The only way to develop this skill though is to dig in. 

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Magee, MS - A strong tornado has left Maegan Errington with more than the usual case of jitters for a bride-to-be.

National Weather Service officials say at least five tornadoes struck Mississippi before early Thursday morning, injuring at least 20 people and damaging more than 60 buildings, including Errington&#8217;s church and a water treatment plant.

Hardest hit on Thursday was the town of Magee, where the tornado tore through the city&#8217;s outskirts.&nbsp; Officials say the winds reached up to 150 miles an hour, and debris was found as far away as Garlandville, which is nearly 50 miles northeast of Magee.

&#8220;I was worried about rain.&nbsp; I wasn&#8217;t worried about losing the church,&#8220; said a tearful Errington, 23, who pulled on cowboy boots and a camouflage cap against the last rain of a passing severe storm front to survey the damage of Thursday&#8217;s pre-dawn storm.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:55:59 EST</pubDate>
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Drought&#8212;an extended period of months or even years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply

&nbsp;  &nbsp; As of late-March, parts of the Coastal Empire and Lowcountry are running more than 5 inches below average in rainfall totals.&nbsp; This places our area in a moderate drought.&nbsp; And during times of drought, wildfires are always a concern.

&nbsp;  &nbsp; Well, imagine being inside an oven, wearing heavy clothing with smoke filling your lungs&#8230;this is what it&#8217;s like to fight a raging wildfire.

&nbsp;  &nbsp; In this episode of Storm Stories, we&#8217;ll take you back to 1994 when 14 firefighters lost their lives battling a wildfire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:52:54 EST</pubDate>
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The topic of my blog today&#8230; the connection between soil
moisture and potential impact and length of summer heat waves.           ]]></description>
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&#8220;Given the weather forecast we had&#8212;and we had monitored it over and over again&#8212;it was a decision that we made.&nbsp; And obviously I made it with some significant trepidation, but had the forecast held, we would have been okay.&#8220; &#8212;&#8212;Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, after Game 5 of the World Series in Philadelphia between the Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays was postponed due to rain&#8212;the first time in history a World Series game was suspended.

Ouch.&nbsp; I wouldn&#8217;t want to be the meteorologist called out on this one.&nbsp; I get enough slack from WSAV News 3&#8217;s Russ Riesinger on his game days!&nbsp; 

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          <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:31:02 EST</pubDate>
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Looking for something cool to do this weekend?&nbsp; Head on out to the Oatland Island Wildlife Center&#8217;s Sheep to Shawl Festival!&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be there working in the afternoon and taking my kids around to all of the activities.

The festival will feature the shearing of Oatland&#8217;s sheep by members of The Fiber Guild of Savannah.&nbsp; Visitors will have the opportunity to participate in many activities including carding, spinning and weaving.&nbsp; The Guild will offer a chance to win a one-of-a-kind hand woven shoulder wrap shawl in a raffle to be held at 3p.m.&nbsp; 
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          <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:49:55 EST</pubDate>
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In what can only be described as a tragic day for aviation, a total of 16 people were killed in two unrelated plane crashes over the last 24 hours, one in Montana and one in Japan.

Is it just me or does it seem like plane crashes are all over the news these days?&nbsp; Maybe it&#8217;s the intrigue of the plane crash on the Hudson River?&nbsp; Regardless, I know the headlines catch my eye, and I wonder how much weather plays a part.
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Today (March 23, 2009) marks World Meteorological Day. This year&#8217;s theme calls attention to the interaction between weather, climate and air quality.            ]]></description>
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Tsunami&#8230;a series of waves that is created when a large volume of a body of water, such as an ocean, gets rapidly displaced.&nbsp; Ever want to know just how deadly and dangerous these waves can be, just think back to the 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami.&nbsp; Those are visions I will never get out of my head.

Well, tsunamis are back in the news today.&nbsp; An underwater volcano out in the South Pacific Ocean set off a strong earthquake on the main island of Tonga.&nbsp; This then set off a tsunami warning.&nbsp; The warning was cancelled only two hours later, but the threat is still fresh in everyone&#8217;s mind.&nbsp; So I thought it was pretty cool when I stumbled upon this latest invention&#8230;Tsunami Invisibility Cloaks.
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