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An alvar or pavement barren is a limestone plain with thin or no soil and, as a result, sparse vegetation. This environment suffers from poor drainage, so these areas flood in the spring and become very dry and hot in the summer. This challenging habitat supports a community of rare plants and animals, including species more commonly found on prairie grasslands. Lichen and mosses are common species. Trees and bushes are absent or severely stunted. Alvars can be found in southern Sweden, northwest Estonia and around the Great La ...

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• Alvar - Alvar locations

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1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Storm One. The second tropical depression of the season formed in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico from a tropical wave on August 9. It quickly strengthened into a tropical storm, though the strengthening was not known at the time. Based on lack of significant organization or reports at the time, the storm remained unnamed. It travelled northwestward and as it neared the coast, the first tropical storm warning ever issued for a tropical system was issued for the Texas and ...

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1987 Atlantic hurricane season, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Storms, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Storm One, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Arlene, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Storm Bret, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Storm Cindy, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Storm Dennis, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Emily, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Floyd, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Depression Fourteen, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - 1987 storm names, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Retirement

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The following names were used for named storms that formed in the north Atlantic in 1987. This is the same list used for the 1981 season. No names were retired, so it was used again in the 1993 season. Names that were not assigned are marked in gray. Arlene Bret Cindy Dennis Emily Floyd Gert (unused) Harvey (unused) Irene < ...

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1987 Atlantic hurricane season, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Storms, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Storm One, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Arlene, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Storm Bret, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Storm Cindy, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Storm Dennis, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Emily, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Floyd, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Depression Fourteen, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - 1987 storm names, 1987 Atlantic hurricane season - Retirement

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