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'Pineapple Express': New Sensors to Monitor Torrential Storms
Dec 4, 2012

'Pineapple Express': New Sensors to Monitor Torrential StormsSAN FRANCISCO — Nature generally doesn't time its storms so well. A "Pineapple Express" weather system — so named because of its origins near the pineapple-rich Hawaiian Islands — dumped large amounts of rain on San Francisco and Northern California this past weekend, just ahead of the announcement of a new system for forecasting and assessing exactly that type of storm.


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