Forecaster sees active Atlantic hurricane season (London-based forecaster Tropical Storm Risk)

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 3/21/07 | Reuters

[verity]

This could spell the end for a certain mayor's chocolate city.

[The South Texan]

Another "sky is falling" prediction that will probably be proved as pure non sense.

But hey, my oil refining stocks will go up based on this stuff and this time I'll cash out before the so called experts out there learn they were taken for a walk once again.

[loboinok]

Let's hope their "predictions" are as accurate as last years!

[tfecw]

My first reaction to this was 'How do they know?' Then i came to my senses and remembered they don't have a F'in clue.

I predict the Cubs will win the Series this year and that tomorrow's lotto numbers are 4-3-6

[expatpat]

That's what you said last year -- eventually you will be correct....

[COEXERJ145]

Might as well get this out of the way.

It's Bush's fault for not signing Kyoto and not listening to Al Gore on global warming.

[Malacoda]

Let me be the first to post"

BUSH'S FAULT -- women and minorities to be hardest hit, and

WE'RE ALL DOOOOOOOOOOOMED!

[smonk]

that's what they said last year, and it was pretty much a snooze.

[VOA]

Experts had universally -- and erroneously -- predicted 2006 would
be a busy year for Atlantic storms.

Climatologists: guys that can't tell you how many hurricanes
that will pop up within a year...
but they know exactly what's gonna' happen 100 years from now...

[kalee]

Didn't they say the same thing last year?


My husband's great uncle was an old timey General Practitioner who claimed he was 100% accurate in determining the sex of babies his patients expected. He told all mothers they would have a boy, but recorded girl in his notebook. If the baby was a boy mom and dad were pleased and all was well. If the baby was a girl, he showed them his notebbook and claimed they must have misunderstood what he originally told them. I have a feeling the hurricane predictors are trying the same scam, only difference is their predictions are spread abit further than their own notes.

[C210N]

I believe 2007 may be the worst hurricane year YET, as the heating up of Mars leaks off to Earth, causing Category 6+ hurricanes to form. This can only get worse in years to come.

Unless we do something about it. Now!

[Sender]

Subprimes and canes, oh my!

[sgtbono2002]

Yeah ,but if they keep saying it --sooner or later they will get it. Then they will say "we told ya so".

[AFPhys]

LOL... I'm excited about this "prediction"...

However, I'll wait for Gray's ... as well as his REAL expert evaluation of last year as well as its relation to this year.

[AFPhys]

I predict that the Little Red Spot on Jupiter will strengthen and bring doom upon New JupitOrleans ... due to an excess of methane spewing cows on that planet.

[capt. norm]

This could spell the end for a certain mayor's chocolate city.

I've been thru 5 hurricanes here in Panama City, FL (Eloise 1975, Elena 1985, Kate 1985, Erin 1995, Opal 1995) plus getting slammed by some other close ones.

The big difference seems to be that we know how to handle hurricanes here. We pitch in, we clean it up, we get over it and we don't go around belly-aching for the next two years about how bad it was.

New Orleans needs to grow up and stop being dependent on the rest of the country.

[vetvetdoug]

Norm, why is it people that live in England and Colorado seem to know more about hurricanes than those that live along the Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico?

[NormsRevenge]

Good question...

[Rembrandt]

When they accurately predict the weather 10 days out, I'll begin to pay attention to them.