Posted
4/07/2010 08:50:00 PM
by Douglas
Here it is, folks, this year's annual "this year's hurricane season is going to be worse than normal"
story.Colorado State University's hurricane forecast team is predicting an above-average season for the Atlantic basin in 2010, which includes all tropical storms and hurricanes in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
The forecast calls for 15 named tropical storms, of which eight will become hurricanes. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when its sustained wind speeds surpass 74 mph. Of those eight, four are expected to develop into major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5) with maximum wind speeds of 111 mph or greater.
I wonder if anyone in the hurricane predicting business knows what the word "average" means?
See ya later this year when we get the "boy, we screwed up" updated prediction in mid-summer, followed by the late fall "we made all that up" update.