Meet SLOSH, NOAA’s most self-aware acronym yet.

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By Eve AndrewsSep 13, 2016, 6:06 am137 pts
The Sea, Lake and Overland Surges from Hurricanes tool was developed by the National Weather Service to predict the height of storm surges — something that would come in handy for mitigating some of the disaster caused by the most recent bouts of flooding in Louisiana, for example. That’s some serious…

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