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After a month of heavy rain a spell of mainly fine weather is expected for the last few days of August. - [Read more]

AFP - Tropical Storm Gustav churned toward Cuba and the United States after lashing Haiti and the Dominican Republic with hurricane force winds and rain that killed 22 people.

Swiss researchers claim to have made the weather balloon obsolete with a vertically projecting lidar system that scans the sky instantaneously up to 10 kilometers. - [Read more]

AP - On the eve of Hurricane Katrinas third anniversary, a nervous New Orleans watched Wednesday as another storm threatened to test everything the city has rebuilt, and officials made preliminary plans to evacuate people, pets and hospitals in an attempt to avoid a Katrina-style chaos.

AP - Gustav stalled offshore Wednesday and poured more misery onto Haiti after landslides and flooding killed 23 people. Oil workers began leaving their rigs and New Orleans drew up evacuation plans as forecasters warned the storm could plow into the U.S. Gulf coast as a major hurricane.

Survey crews from the National Weather Service Office in Birmingham confirmed eight tornadoes touched down Tuesday. All were classified E-F One or E-F Two. - [Read more]

AP - The State Department urged Americans on Wednesday to be aware of the risks caused by Tropical Storm Gustav to people traveling to Haiti, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Cuba and Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula. - [Read more]

AFP - Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal Wednesday declared a state of emergency and announced plans to begin evacuating coastal areas ahead of the storm forecast to strike the state on Monday afternoon as a Category 3 hurricane.