Posted on 05/13/2009 12:20:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (Reuters) - Colorado State University hurricane forecaster Bill Gray said on Wednesday he may reduce his next Atlantic season forecast because sea temperatures are cooling and a weak El Nino may appear by late summer.
"Things are looking better and better for fewer storms," Gray told Reuters in an interview at the Florida Governor's Hurricane Conference in Fort Lauderdale.
"Off the west African coast there's colder water. There's increasing high pressure in the Azores Islands that typically makes the trade winds stronger," he said.
In April, Gray's team predicted the six-month Atlantic hurricane season, which starts on June 1, would see 12 tropical storms, of which six would become hurricanes and two would reach "major" status of Category 3 or higher on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity.
The pioneering forecaster said if his research team lowers the forecast, it would likely drop to 11 storms. The new forecast is scheduled for release on June 2.
The April forecast was already reduced from one issued in December, when the CSU team called for 14 tropical storms, including seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes.
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The Bush/Cheney Hurricane Maker has been retired.
With this guy’s track record for accuracy, this can only mean one thing - down in Florida we’re going to get pounded multiple times this year! I’d better go take a quick inventory of my hurricane supplies and bring them back up to snuff . . . .
I say eight!
Shhh! Don’t tell Algore that the seas are cooling! He might have a conniption fit!
Bush and Cheney had it removed to an undisclosed location. I mean, would you want to see Biden playing with it, trying to see what it operates and how it works?
“Bush and Cheney had it removed to an undisclosed location. I mean, would you want to see Biden playing with it, trying to see what it operates and how it works?”
Good point, especially since it’s probably at the same location Israel keeps the tsunami-making machine.
Is that also where the CIA stores their HIV/AIDS/LSD/Crack Cocaine making equipment?
Or am I confusing that with the African Famine Generator?
Andrew was the first storm of the ‘92 season in late August.
Interesting to me is this question.
Why doesn’t California have hurricanes?
They are cooling from all the polar ice cap melt. Not to mention the glacial melting.
And with alllllll that melting, the sea level in the Florida Keys has not been raised one iota.
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