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HEADS UP: Hurricane Ernesto may loom as Anniversary of Katrina Nears

Tropical Depression Five is not that impressive now, but the current National Weather Service Discussion suggests that "Hurricane Ernesto" could be a Category 2 (or possibly Category 3) hurricane as it passes the Western end of Cuba, entering the southern Gulf of Mexico, heading north, where it could potentially gain even more strength.

National Weather Service Discussion: (Underline and emphasis mine)
THE INTENSITY FORECAST IS PERHAPS BECOMING LESS TRICKY. THELARGE-SCALE MODELS ARE COMING INTO BETTER AGREEMENT THAT THEUPPER-LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN CARIBBEAN WILL MOVE WESTWARDAND ALLOW AN UPPER-LEVEL RIDGE TO DEVELOP OVER THE WESTERNCARIBBEAN. SHOULD THIS HAPPEN...AS SOME OF THE MODELS HAVE BEENKNOWN TO MOVE UPPER-LEVEL LOWS TOO QUICKLY WESTWARD...IT WOULDREDUCE THE CURRENT 15-20 KT SHEAR AND PRODUCE A MORE FAVORABLEENVIRONMENT. THE SHIPS MODEL CALLS FOR THE DEPRESSION TO BECOME AHURRICANE IN ABOUT 60 HR AND REACH 87 KT BY 120 HR. GIVEN THEUNCERTAINTIES IN THE INITIAL POSITION AND INTENSITY...THE NEWINTENSITY FORECAST IS THE SAME AS THE OLD FORECAST...CALLING FORTHE CYCLONE TO BECOME A HURRICANE IN ABOUT 72 HR. HOWEVER...IF THE SHEAR DECREASES AS MUCH AS FORECAST...THE CYCLONE COULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY STRONGER THAN CURRENTLY FORECAST AFTER 72 HR.

AN AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT IS SCHEDULED TOINVESTIGATE THE DEPRESSION THIS AFTERNOON. IF THE AIRCRAFT FINDSTHE CENTER IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION...SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THEFORECAST TRACK COULD BE NECESSARY ON THE NEXT ADVISORY.

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ABNT20 KNHC 182107
TWOAT
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
530 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 2006

FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...

THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON RECENTLY
UPGRADED TROPICAL STORM BERYL...LOCATED ABOUT 180 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF CAPE HATTERAS NORTH CAROLINA.

http://www.state.pa.us/papower/cwp/view.as...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 12, 2006

MINIMUM WAGE INCREASED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NINE
YEARS AS GOVERNOR RENDELL CEREMONIOUSLY SIGNS
SENATE BILL 1090

PITTSBURGH — Some 420,000 hard-working Pennsylvanians will have a chance to make a better life for themselves and their families with Governor Edward G. Rendell’s signing of Senate Bill 1090, legislation to increase the state’s minimum wage for the first time in nine years.

“Raising the minimum wage was, absolutely, the right thing to do,” Governor Rendell said during a ceremonial signing at the Steel Workers’ Union in Pittsburgh. “People should never have had to decide between paying the light bill and putting food on the table. Senate Bill 1090 is a win for our hard-working families and our communities.”

The Governor officially signed the legislation into law on July 9 during a visit to Sharon Baptist Church in Philadelphia.

SB 1090, which was sponsored by Sen. Christine Tartaglione (D-Philadelphia), increases the state’s minimum wage in two steps: to $6.25 an hour on Jan. 1, 2007; and to $7.15 an hour on July 1, 2007.

A delayed implementation schedule will be followed for employers with 10 or fewer full-time employees. These employers will increase the minimum wage to $5.65 on Jan. 1, 2007; $6.65 on July 1, 2007 and $7.15 on July 1, 2008.

Under the new law, a 60-day training wage, based on the federal $5.15-per-hour training wage, for employees under 20 years of age will be provided. Upon hiring, employers must notify workers of both the training wage and the workers’ right to receive the Pennsylvania minimum wage after 60 calendar days of employment. The law also makes it clear that other workers may not be displaced to allow hiring of training-wage workers.

The minimum wage was federally mandated in 1997 at $5.15 an hour. Pennsylvania joins 19 other states – Alaska, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin, plus the District of Columbia – which has set minimum wages above $5.15 an hour.

Pennsylvania’s General Assembly had not increased the minimum wage since 1988.

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