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Published online 22 September 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050919-8
Corrected online: 26 September 2005

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The storm watchers

News@nature.com talks to the meteorologist in charge of monitoring and predicting the course of hurricanes heading for the United States.

Hurricane Rita is bearing down on the coast of Texas, and its winds of 270 kilometres per hour threaten to batter the state this weekend. The latest forecasts describe Rita as 'potentially catastrophic'.

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