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Article: EDITORIAL: Hurricane Center did its job to a tee.(Editorial)
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
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- August 22, 2007
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Aug. 22--ISSUE: Nobody caught off-guard by Dean.
Hurricane Dean is a monster storm that has done a great deal of damage -- and it's not done yet -- but nobody can say they were caught unaware.
For that, the National Hurricane Center deserves recognition for a job well done.
From the time early last week that Tropical Depression 4 emerged 3,000 miles away from South Florida in the eastern Atlantic, until the time it blasted into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane, the folks at the hurricane center issued forecasts and projected tracks that were virtually dead-on in their accuracy.
This proves two things: ...