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Article: Barry brings needed rain to Florida Tropical storm opens '07 hurricane season.
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Article date:
- June 2, 2007
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MIAMI - That didn't take long.
With exquisite - if worrisome - timing, Tropical Storm Barry
developed yesterday right over south Florida and only 17 hours into
the hurricane season.
It could be a long, blustery, anxious six months.
"Well, we knew the tropics were active," Bill Proenza said on the
first official day of his first season as director of the National
Hurricane Center in West Miami-Dade County.
Forecasters said Barry is unlikely to pose a major threat, but
they issued precautionary warnings and watches for much of Florida's
Gulf Coast.
Generally, nothing good comes from a tropical storm, but at least
Barry's rain moistened the drought-stricken state yesterday. All of
south Florida ...