2006 Hurricane Prediction Issued

[Deepak]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20051206/sc_space/2006hurricanepredictionissuedforecastinggurubillgraystepsaside

"We foresee another very active Atlantic basin tropical cyclone season in 2006," states a report from a team including long-time forecasting guru William Gray of Colorado State University. "However, we do not expect to see as many landfalling major hurricanes in the United States as we have experienced in 2004 and 2005."

The 2006 forecast calls for:

• 17 named tropical storms; an average season has 9.6.
• 9 hurricanes compared to the average of 5.9.
• 5 major hurricanes with winds exceeding 110 mph; average is 2.3.

Though these statistical predictions cannot portend when any of the storms will form or where they will go, Klotzbach, Gray and colleagues calculate an 81 percent chance that at least one major hurricane will hit the U.S. coast in 2006.

 

[Guden Oden]

There are more nations around the gulf of mexico other than just the united states... Mitch for example was rather nasty in of itself, and then it went on to hit rather poorly developed countries on top of that.

 

[Skrying]

There are more nations around the gulf of mexico other than just the united states... Mitch for example was rather nasty in of itself, and then it went on to hit rather poorly developed countries on top of that.

Your point?

I'm curious to what their prediction of the 2005 was.

 

[Beholdereye]

 

[Beholdereye]

^ that was as of May 2005

 

[Skrying]

Interesting, if I'm rembering right they werent that far off. (?)