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...least as of now, the weather forecasts for Denver and Boston are not disastrous. "Our long-term models project higher-than-average temperatures, and lower-than-normal chance of precipitation," says Kyle Fredin, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Denver-Boulder office, of the games that would be played at Coors Field October 27-29. But remember, we're talking about the weather here. "In Denver, it's game on," says Fredin, recalling the blizzard of 1997 that fell before Halloween. "Anything goes here." In fact it snowed over the weekend in Denver, forcing the Rockies to practice...
Meanwhile, Dan Luna, a meteorologist and hydrologist in the National Weather Service's Chanhassen, Minn., office, says up to 7 inches of rain may fall in parts of the region this weekend. That puts some farmers in a tenuous position. First, Keith Sexton feared the summer drought would reduce his corn crops at his farm near Fort Dodge, Iowa, in the north-central part of the state. So far, the rains have been a blessing: He's expecting to yield about 165 bushels of corn per acre, and about 50 bushels of soybeans per acre - average to above-average...
...That's only one day earlier than the forecast by meteorologist Kida of Weathernews. His more accurate prediction is a result of combining careful crunching of meteorological measurements and history with a steady stream of data provided by a network of nearly 4,000 observers monitoring cherry trees around Japan. "We have people monitor specific trees in their region," says Kida. "They send us cell phone picture images on a daily or weekly basis, which gives us a much more accurate picture of how the cherry blossoms are doing in different regions...
...game is not the only bizarre phenomenon storming Cambridge this fall. Saturday’s loss, which broke Harvard’s five-year winning streak, also set the record for the warmest Game day in at least half a decade, according to national forecast provider AccuWeather. According to meteorologist John M. Pachelco from national weather source AccuWeather, the average daytime temperature in November has been 4.5 degrees above normal—defined as the average temperature from 1970 to 2000. “The fall in Cambridge hasn’t been warmer, but it has been longer...
...Those are not reassuring words for a country that continues to get pounded by earthquakes nearly every day, though most are not felt inland. Meteorologist Fauzi says the country only has 30 seismograph detectors for the whole country but hopes to have 160 by 2009. Critics say the country needs to speed up development of a warning system or face the consequences. "You could have 100 tsunamis over the next three years," warns Omar Nawaz, coordinating officer for the World Tourism Organizations's tsunami task force. "That is way too long to wait." Nawaz helped develop a tsunami early-warning...