Tropical Weather Forecast - November 7, 2021
We are done with Wanda but not done with the hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center is already monitoring another system for possible tropical development.
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Travellers excited at the prospect of seeing family and friends for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began took off for the United States on Monday as it lifted travel restrictions slapped on much of the world for the best part of two years. The travel ban, first imposed in early 2020, had barred access to non-U.S. citizens travelling from 33 countries - including China, India and much of Europe - and had also restricted overland entry from Mexico and Canada. The United States lagged many other countries in lifting the curbs, made possible by the rollout of vaccines despite rising infections in many countries and critical to reviving tourism around the globe.
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- Reuters
U.S. administers 429.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines –CDC
Those figures are up from the 428,006,540 vaccine doses administered by Nov. 4, out of 531,287,645 doses delivered, the CDC said. The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech,, as well as Johnson & Johnson's one-shot vaccine. About 23.2 million people have received a booster dose of either Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine.
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B.C. 'weather bomb' will bring heavy rain, strong winds, and snow
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- National Review
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Tourists don colourful shoe covers to wade through Venice
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- Miami Herald
Publix is getting some new competition. And this grocer isn’t even opening a supermarket
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Phoenix residents to experience temperatures in low to mid-80s next week
"There are some numbers that do show potentially 90 degrees on Friday and the chance of that happening is 20%," said Bianca Feldkircher with the NWS.