CSU/Canadian Scientists Project 5 Major Hurricanes Possible This Year

[hatrack]

FREDERICTON -- In what could signal a frightening new fact of life in the age of global warming, Canadian and U.S. forecasters are warning that another major hurricane season is brewing in the Atlantic Ocean.

The 2006 hurricane season officially opens on June 1, and already scientists are telling people living in eastern North America that numerous storms are predicted, with as many as five major hurricanes with winds of 180 km/h or more. "It's kind of comparable to what we were looking at last year at this time," says Bob Robichaud, a meteorologist with the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Dartmouth, N.S.

"Last year we were looking at 12 to 15 storms and this year the forecast is for about 17. No one would go out on a limb and say it is going to be just as bad as last year, but the indications are there that it is still going to be another active season, almost twice as active as normal."

Last year's hurricane season was the most destructive on record.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060508.HURRICANE08/TPStory/National

[bullimiami]

1. last year kind of sucked too.

we had 2 come right over the top of us. eye of one, eye wall of another.
the year before we had 3 just scoot around us both north and south.

damn.

[Javaman]

2. Just imagine our nation if two cat 5's hit major coastal cities this year..

If the fucking moron* and his room full of dopes can't even deal with fixing New Orleans, imagine if Jacksonville, Florida and Houston, Texas were hit dead on with Cat 5's.

Life as we know it, here in the U.S. would come to a grinding halt.

[phantom power]

3. "No one would go out on a limb..."

Here we go again. Yet another group of forecasters says:

"All the data support the conclusion that this hurricane season should be just like last year, but we don't want to make an official prediction that there will be a similar number of storms."

If the data support it, why is it going out on a limb to make the prediction? Because nobody can bring themselves to believe that this is the new normal?