Posted on 05/13/2010 10:54:15 AM PDT by Patriot1259
STATE COLLEGE, PA -- AccuWeather.com reports the upcoming hurricane season could be a top ten year, a stark contrast from the relatively calm 2009 season.
AccuWeather.com Chief Hurricane Meteorologist Joe Bastardi predicts a total of 16-18 storms this season. To put that in perspective, only eight years in the 160 years of records have had 16 or more storms in a season.
The season should start early with one or two threats by early July, and stay late with additional threats extending well into October.
His forecast team expects at least six storms to impact the United States coastline--slightly more than one out of every three. In a normal year, one out of every five named storms (20 percent) in the Atlantic basin impacts the United States. In the 2005 season, 36 percent of the storms affected the United States, while 50 percent impacted the U.S. in 1998 and 2008. "From the standpoint of number of storm threats from the tropics to the U.S. coastline, we will at least rival 2008, and in the extreme case, this season could end up in a category only exceeded by 2005," Bastardi said.
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You know this prognostication means that there will NO named storms this season...
One of these years they'll be right.
If there are, I don’t want to be hit by oil globs flying at hurricane speed.
Well, the pundits have predicted heavy hurricane activity before, and we’ve wound up with a relatively mild season. Here’s hoping the experts are wrong and it’s quiet this year.
You know this prognostication means that there will be NO named storms this season...
And monkeys COULD fly out of my butt.
Want to bet... Dr. Grey does not think so.
LLS
So, basically the same forecast as 2008 and 2009, and every preceding year.
AccuWeather.com Chief Hurricane Meteorologist Joe Bastardi predicts a total of 16-18 storms this season. To put that in perspective, only eight years in the 160 years of records have had 16 or more storms in a season.
Yikes... Joe Bastardi is good, but I sure hope he's wrong this time...
This year will be fun.
They’re going to start naming clouds.
They’re going to start naming clouds.
They predict this bull every year...eventually they will be right
Nuff said...........
The oil will greatly diminish hurricanes that pass over it.
Isn’t this what they said about last year?
Hey, they just keep giving the same prediction, they’ll get it right one year. ;)
They already do.........
The dartboard made out of tea leaves and dead chickens prediction method aside, one thing that may be a cause of concern is the oil slick that’s in the Gulf. Could the dark oil warm that patch of the sea enough to the point that it could strengthen any hurricanes that pass through that patch or would the sea simply upwell by the time that hurricane season comes to fruition?
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