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  Tropical Cyclone Freda Strikes Solomon Islands

  News - Dec 31, 2012; 4:25 AM ET

  Tropical Cyclone Freda has brought heavy rainfall to the Solomon Islands and is currently churning over the open Coral Sea.

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  Timeline of Sandy, Controversy Surrounding the Storm

  News - Dec 21, 2012; 6:04 AM ET

  AccuWeather.com has assembled a timeline of the major events that have put Sandy in the spotlight and held it there for over two months.

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  Deadly Tropical Cyclone Evan Approaching Fiji

  News - Dec 16, 2012; 6:10 AM ET

  While Samoa cleans up from the wrath of Tropical Cyclone Evan, Fiji is threatened as the storm travels to the west-southwest.

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  Super Typhoon Bopha Now Twice as Deadly as Sandy

  News - Dec 11, 2012; 6:34 AM ET

  The people of the Philippines are continuing to pick up the pieces in the wake of what was Super Typhoon Bopha.

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  Infographic: Stats of 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season

  News - Dec 3, 2012; 5:48 AM ET

  An infographic covers all the stats of the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season, showing high numbers for the whole season.

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  Typhoon Bopha Has Sights Set on the Philippines

  News - Dec 3, 2012; 4:29 AM ET

  While the hurricane season is likely over for the United States, other parts of the world are not so lucky.

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  Hurricane Season Officially Ends, But Atlantic Not Quiet

  News - Dec 2, 2012; 4:15 PM ET

  The 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially ended with November, but there are signs that Mother Nature wants to defy human boundaries.

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  Remembering "Wrong Way" Hurricane Lenny

  News - Nov 19, 2012; 11:38 AM ET

  While the tropics are currently quiet, Hurricane Lenny was tracking the "wrong way" through the Atlantic Basin on this date in 1999.

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  What is the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale?

  The Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale is a categorical classification of hurricanes based on their wind speed, used by the U.S. government's National Hurricane Center.

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  Atlantic Category 5 Storms

  To qualify as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane intensity scale, maximum sustained winds must exceed 155 mph (135 kt).

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  Retired Hurricane Names

  Hurricanes that have a severe impact on lives or the economy are remembered by generations after the devastation they caused, and some go into weather history.

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  When and Where Do Hurricanes Occur?

  Hurricanes (by whatever name) are by far most common in the Pacific Ocean, with the western Pacific being most active. In some years, the Philippines are struck by more than 20 tropical storms and typhoons.

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