Posted on 04/06/2011 9:50:53 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
MIAMI (AFP) – Last year's record hurricane season will be followed by another unusually busy one, with 16 named storms expected this year, US weather forecasters predicted on Wednesday.
Forecasters at Colorado State University are predicting that nine of the named storms that form in the Atlantic will develop into hurricanes.
"We expect that anomalously warm tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures combined with neutral tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures will contribute to an active season," said Phil Klotzbach of CSU's Tropical Meteorology Project.
Weather-watchers at CSU said the unusually busy hurricane activity expected this year, like last year's record storm season, is caused by the arrival of La Nina, the atmospheric force that promotes hurricane formation.
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2010 Atlantic storm season .. third busiest on record, .. 19 named tropical storms over the Americas and the Caribbean .. 12 of which became hurricanes.
They said this last year.
here we go again. they’ve been predicting busy hurricane seasons for the past four years, only to have them turn out to be mild. it’s because they have global warming programmed into their models.
of course, even a broken clock is right every now and again, but i’d put my money on another mild season
And the year before that....and the year before that....and the year before that....
Well, they're going to be right one of these days.
The USA has not had a hurricane make landfall since Hurricane Ike in 2008.
All it takes is one year -- and then they will all say "HA! We were right! Global Warming, baby! You Republicans were sooooooooooo wrong!!!!"
I’m going to wait until Thanksgiving to make my prediction.
Can someone ping NautiNurse?
They say this every year.............
if they keep predicting a busy hurricane season, they will eventually get it right. #brokenclock
I am going out on a limb and predicting a hurricane will hit the Gulf Coast.
They’ve been wrong so many times I think their “broken clock” was set on military time...
“PALIN’S FAULT... and her weather machine.”
Did Cheney turn over the keys? And by the way, it’s been enhanced significantly since the Bush-Cheney admin. It now controls earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. As well as the performances on DWTS.
They say this every year.
they’ve been “Epic Fail” in predictions since katrina.
You only have to be right once!
Nauti,
Might want to send this out to your list.
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