Hurricane Center 2011
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Tropical Cyclone Jasmine
Feb 8, 2012; 5:00 AM ET
Jasmine's wind intensity reached that of a Category 3 hurricane on Tuesday.
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Tropical Weather Reports
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Tropical Cyclone Jasmine
News - Feb 8, 2012; 5:00 AM ET
Jasmine's wind intensity reached that of a Category 3 hurricane on Tuesday.
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Heavy Rain, Mountain Snow Bound for Mexico
News - Feb 8, 2012; 4:50 AM ET
Indications are a storm will plow into Mexico later this week spreading rain over a large part of the nation during an unusual time of the year.
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Tropics Delivering Rain to South Florida
News - Feb 6, 2012; 6:04 PM ET
While the clock is ticking on development of a tropical system near the Florida Straits, the feature is unloading drenching rain on the Keys and South Florida.
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February Tropics, Say What?
News - Feb 6, 2012; 2:10 PM ET
The calendar says it's early February, but that is not stopping the tropics from trying to come alive near South Florida.
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Tropical Cyclone Develops in Coral Sea
News - Feb 4, 2012; 9:04 PM ET
A tropical cyclone developed in the western Coral Sea of the coast of Australia late on Saturday local time.
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Tropical Cyclone Iggy Hovers off Australian North West
News - Jan 30, 2012; 5:06 PM ET
A late-week landfall on the coast of western Australia could take place near Geraldton.
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Tropical Cyclone Iggy Threatens Australia
News - Jan 30, 2012; 6:20 AM ET
The threat remains for Tropical Cyclone Iggy to bring Western Australia's northwestern strong winds and unleash flooding rainfall through the first part of this week.
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Deadly Funso Maintains Category 4 Hurricane Strength
News - Jan 25, 2012; 7:52 AM ET
Tropical Cyclone Funso remains extremely dangerous with the strength of a Category 4 hurricane as it churns off the coast of southern Africa.
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