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Fires in Mozambique and Tanzania
Scores of fires were burning on October 1, 2006, in Tanzania and Mozambique.
Event Date: 2006-10-01 00:00:00
Number of Images: 1
Topic: Fires
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Fires on Borneo and Sumatra
Agricultural and forest fires burning on Sumatra and Borneo since late September 2006 blanketed a wide region with smoke that interrupted air and highway travel and pushed air quality to unhealthy levels. Fires were still burning in early November.
Event Date: 2006-10-01 00:00:00
Number of Images: 5
Topic: Fires
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Tropical Storm Bebinca
Tropical Storm Bebinca formed early in the morning on October 1, 2006, to the northeast of the Philippine Islands. The system gradually moved north and east away from the island chain and gained enough power to become a storm and be named.
Event Date: 2006-10-01 00:00:00
Number of Images: 1
Topic: Severe Storms
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Drought in Southeastern Australia
Spring started warm and dry in much of Australia. In addition to high land surface temperatures in September 2006, many of the country's agricultural areas were facing 6- to 12-month rainfall deficiencies.
Event Date: 2006-09-30 00:00:00
Number of Images: 3
Topic: Crops & Drought
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Typhoon Xangsane
Typhoon Xangsane began as an area of low air pressure (tropical depression) on September 25, 2006, in the western Pacific near the coast of the Philippine Islands. Over the next 36 hours, it grew into a typhoon.
Event Date: 2006-09-27 00:00:00
Number of Images: 4
Topic: Severe Storms
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Fires on Sumatra
In late September and October 2006, scores of fires were burning in southeastern Sumatra. The island's largest city, Palembang, was shrouded in haze.
Event Date: 2006-09-27 00:00:00
Number of Images: 3
Topic: Fires
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Dust Storm in the Simpson Desert, Australia
A dust storm struck the Simpson Desert in Australia's outback in late September 2006.
Event Date: 2006-09-24 00:00:00
Number of Images: 1
Topic: Dust & Smoke
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Floods in the Southeastern United States
Early fall thunderstorms dumped heavy rain on Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee, giving rise to floods on September 24, 2006.
Event Date: 2006-09-23 00:00:00
Number of Images: 1
Topic: Floods
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Thunderstorms in the Midwestern United States
Severe storms and flooding swept across parts of the southeastern and mid-western United States on September 23 and September 24, 2006.
Event Date: 2006-09-22 00:00:00
Number of Images: 1
Topic: Severe Storms
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Volcanic Activity on Suwanose-jima
The Suwanose-jima Volcano emitted a continuous plume of ash and steam in September 2006.
Event Date: 2006-09-20 00:00:00
Number of Images: 1
Topic: Volcanoes
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