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Created on 2003-06-15 01:32:23 (#1119101), last updated 2009-12-04

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Name:	- TWC Aficionados -
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Description:	Hurricanes. Weather. Climate. Environment. Sustainable Living. Space Weather. Outdoors.

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Welcome! This is the place to talk about the The Weather Channel, its sister stations and websites, shows such as Storm Stories, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, space weather, climate science, the environment, weather forecasting, on-camera meteorologists and more!

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This community was started by some Weather Channel fans a few years ago who wanted to see a TWC-related community that wasn't just only about the personalities, but also with strong focus on the science of weather and climate, and included serious articles, real debates, weather and climate news, political implications, new discoveries and methods, etc.

cieldumort moderates the community, but is generally pretty much hands-off as long as the posts are relatively on topic and the discourse is civil. Ciel is glad you stopped by and invites you to join, watch, contribute, lurk, smirk, whatever... but most of all, enjoy the community! :)

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- The official start to the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season will be June 1st -
The 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season List of Names

   Ana    Bill    Claudette     Danny       Erika
  Fred      Grace     Henri         Ida       Joaquin
 Kate     Larry    Mindy    Nicholas    Odette   Peter 
      Rose    Sam    Teresa      Victor      Wanda

- The official end of the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season was November 30th -
The 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season List of Names:

    01L.Arthur    02L.Bertha  03L.Cristobal   04L.Dolly   05L.Edouard
   06L.Fay    07L.Gustav    08L.Hanna    09L.Ike     10L.Josephine   11L.Kyle
       12L.Laura    13L.Marco    14L.Nana    15L.Omar    17L.Paloma      
 Rene     Sally    Teddy     Vicky     Wilfred

The 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season List of Names:

  01L.Andrea   02L.Barry  03L.Chantal   04L.Dean    05L.Erin  06L.Felix
 07L.Gabrielle 09L.Humberto 08L.Ingrid  11L.Jerry   12L.Karen
    13L.Lorenzo  14L.Melissa   16L.Noel    17L.Olga   Pablo  Rebekah 
Sebastien   Tanya    Van     Wendy

- The official start to the 2008 East Pac Hurricane Season was on May 15th -
Notable Sub or Tropical Cyclones of 2008 in the C. & E. Pacfic

01E. Alma 11E. Julio 15E. Norbert

Notable Sub or Tropical Cyclones of 2007 in the C. & E. Pacfic

02E. Barbara 09E.Flossie 11E.Henriette

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12/16/06 Clarification of community interests:
In December 2005 TWC updated their official Position Statement on Global Warming, taking a fair and pragmatic look at the timely and very weather-related subject. While still a "hot-button" topic, subject to accusations of political agenda and bias, the question as to whether or not global warming is in fact occurring is really no longer debatable. It has been this moderator's observation that The Weather Channel, taking an "all things weather" approach to its modern format, has become an exceptional source of following objective science on the subject, and that many, if not nearly all of TWC_A's Members find the issue of Global Warming of at least moderate importance.

twc_aficionados will also welcome just about all kinds of Global Warming discussions, provided they are posted and discussed with all due consideration of one another, and are related to factual, and much preferably sourced, peer-reviewed material. While whether or not Anthropogenic Global Warming is occurring is scarcely in question now, looking forward, the results of this warming trend are not yet certain, but should be of extreme importance to all of us who care about the planet in which we live and will leave behind for our children, their children, and all other species to inhabit the earth.

Credits: Forecast Earth & Uninion of Concerned Scientists

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