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The Pacific storm was called Aletta.
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In 1992, a container ship that left Hong Kong carrying tens of thousands of yellow ducks spilled into the Pacific Ocean during a violent storm.
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Even as they did so, Filipinos kept their eyes peeled on another storm looming in the Pacific Ocean.
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It figured that out in the 1930s as storm clouds were gathering in the Pacific, correctly anticipating that America might need to conduct an island-hopping campaign against entrenched Japanese forces.
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Tropical storm warnings were in effect for the Pacific coast of Central America from Costa Rica to El Salvador.
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Melor is expected to weaken to a tropical storm before moving back out over the Pacific Ocean south of Hokkaido, where it will become an extra-tropical system over open water later on Thursday.
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This year marks the first time in recorded history that a tropical storm has formed in both the east Pacific basin and Atlantic basin before the official start of hurricane season, the Hurricane Center said.
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So it's out near the dateline and in the central Pacific, and that moves a lot of tropical storm activity, thunderstorm activity, away from where it normally is north of Australia in the Monsoon region and the Indonesian region.
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On Thursday, Tropical Storm Alma, the first one of the year in the eastern Pacific, formed near the west coast of Central America, according to the National Weather Service.
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And there is a modern El Nino going on, supposedly, out in the Pacific, and that can have a very large influence in the weather patterns, the storm tracks, the atmospheric waves across North America.
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