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It's the largest tropical storm we've ever had, ... It's engulfed the entire state. This is going to be a while to get back to normal.

It's the climate. If it was cold and not as humid, I would probably be doing slower music. Tropical music is daytime music. Happy music.

It's like when there is a tropical depression off the Leeward Islands. We need to pay attention. A disaster could be coming our way.

It's going to be a mess. For athletes, I hope it didn't mess their future plans up. We had scares two years ago when I was there with tropical storms and stuff like that that would flood the streets. The difference was the water would be gone the next day. It's definitely serious now, with all the water staying.

It's a very rare tropical cyclone making landfall in the Iberian Peninsula.

It's possible as Ophelia moves north-northeast those outer bands of tropical storm-force winds could affect portions of southern New England.

Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too

The No. 1 killer of tropical fish in this country is having your neighbors feeding your fish.

It's still a tropical storm but it won't be much longer. By midnight, it should be a memory.

Effective immediately ... officials are issuing a general resident evacuation for all residents living from the Seven Mile Bridge through Key West due to Tropical Storm Rita, which is expected to mature into Hurricane Rita later Monday.

The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe's finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.

The best of our destination is that we're in the tropics. What we're left with, sometimes, is the tropical weather.

The best of our destination is that we're in the topics. What we're left with, sometimes, is the tropical weather.

Target launch date for Falcon I maiden flight is Halloween (October 31) from our island launch complex in the Kwajalein Atoll. For potential customers out there, I should mention that Kwajalein has some of the worlds best scuba diving and snorkeling! It is literally a tropical paradise.

It will be very interesting. Everybody is keeping a close eye on how this develops here. Lights react in different ways in different parts of the world. I do not know how much dew plays a part, especially in a tropical climate. We will just have to wait and see how the first game goes and assess the situation.

The rest of the globe that has 88% of the tropical storms hasn't changed, ... If I'm proven wrong, I will jump off the highest peak in Colorado.

These temporary housing areas, well, the mobile homes and trailers in particular are not built to withstand hurricanes or even strong tropical storms.

This is just precautionary at this time. Due to the unpredictable nature of tropical systems, we want our residents to begin planning.

Once Irene hits the icy waters of the North Atlantic in about 48 hours, any remaining tropical characteristics should quickly disappear.

It's rare we have to deal with a tropical storm in Clarksville. If the winds had picked up a bit more than they did or if the rain had come quicker, it would have been a very hard storm.

Incomes are rising and many Chinese tourists have started traveling to tropical locations for their holidays. There's no reason more of them won't want to go north, where skiing conditions are ideal.

I passed close to the pterodactyl swamp, and as I did so, with a dry, crisp, leathery rattle of wings, one of these great creatures--it was twenty feet at least from tip to tip--rose up from somewhere near me and soared into the air. As it passed across the face of the moon the light shone clearly through the membranous wings, and it looked like a flying skeleton against the white, tropical radiance.

I particularly love Legorreta's use of vivid pink, set off by sun and the tough, tropical nature of Mexico.

I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.

Cirrus clouds are like a blanket. They trap heat in the system. That energy has to escape somehow. If enough energy is trapped and stored in the system, it can escape from the tropical ocean in the form of a hurricane, or in a big rain event like a 'Pineapple Express,' which is a deep flow of moisture in the tropics like we recently had hit the East Coast.

By the time they do get across here, it's going to be tropical storm variety.

Generally speaking, we came through fairly well. There's a lesson here: to acknowledge the power of a tropical cyclone.

For now, we are doing with Rita as we do with every tropical storm: evacuating the facilities, checking them and keeping our employees out of harm's way.

The tropical depression is certainly within the radar screens of traders, though it seems to be too early to tell whether it would develop into a storm, and its direction.

This is all about Tropical Storm Rita ... obviously, the last thing that this market needs is for a hurricane to hit the western gulf where it didn't hit last time.

The market is reacting to the tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico which could affect platforms and refineries,

I am a tropical black man.