NOAA issued its 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook on Thursday, predicting an active Atlantic hurricane season. The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season has a 70% likelihood of 13-20 named storms, of which 7-11 could become hurricanes, including 3-6 major hurricanes. NOAA's seasonal hurricane outlook does not predict how many storms will hit land or where a storm will strike.
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In its 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued today, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is
forecasting an active or extremely active season this year.
After a thoughtful and deliberate review, today NOAA released a report on the National Weather Service’s performance during
hurricane/post tropical cyclone Sandy. The report, Hurricane/Post Tropical Cyclone Sandy
Service Assessment, reaffirms that the National Weather Service provided accurate forecasts
for Sandy, giving people early awareness of the significant storm churning toward the mid-Atlantic
and Northeast.
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When two explosions tore through the crowd at the Boston Marathon on April 15, killing three
people and wounding more than 260 others, the decision support services, or DSS, team from the
National Weather Service Boston forecast office was on-hand to help emergency managers, federal law
enforcement officials and first responders deal with the situation.
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TIME magazine recently named weather.gov as one of the 50 best websites of 2013. The
magazine’s editors, who have been ranking their favorite websites in a variety of categories
for the past decade, included weather.gov as one of six sites in the News and Information
category. Weather.gov garners 60 million unique visitors per month. That number can jump from 3
to 10 times during high-impact weather events such as landfalling hurricanes, crippling blizzards,
and tornado outbreaks.
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