31630GDACS EMM News Feed Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material Nasa to Send Unmanned ‘Severe Storm Sentinels’ Aircraft for Hurricane Studyhttp://hken.ibtimes.com/articles/348100/20120603/nasa-send-unmanned-severe-storm-sentinels-aircraft.htmA number of Nasa centers, federal and university agencies are coming together to study hurricane formations and intensity changes in the Atlantic Ocean basin.Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:01:00 +0200ibtimes-hken-2b9f989578f0d8f1ef72e6c0f271623d20120603120100As the Atlantic hurricane season begins the forecasters are all over the maphttp://www.irishsun.com/index.php?sid/206250199/scat/2411cd3571b4f088Tropical storm Beryl may have come ashore last week, but the official start to the Atlantic hurricane season is June 1. Photograph: Nasa/AFP/Getty ...Sat, 02 Jun 2012 20:53:00 +0200irishsun-bd91210149c411b91f391bee69ec09fe20120602205300As the Atlantic hurricane season begins, the forecasters are all over the maphttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/02/atlantic-hurricane-season-begins-forecastersPredicting the number of named storms that will form is an inexact science, and no one knows how many will make landfall This weekend marks the first in the official Atlantic hurricane season. Yet, a week prior to its launch the south-east coast of the United States was hit by tropical storm Beryl.Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:59:00 +0200guardian-e99fab0bd10aab551f78bf0e81ac998920120602195900Forecasters: Beryl not a harbinger of 2012http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/06/01/Forecasters-Beryl-not-a-harbinger-of-2012/UPI-50761338563262/MIAMI, June 1 (UPI) -- U.S. weather forecasters say the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be about average, despite the rare late-May landfall of Beryl.Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:54:00 +0200upi-b085d86fc3d0298d359067adbc79b95320120602025400