Very active 2008 hurricane season forecast

[jpak]

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/04/10/very_active_2008_hurricane_season_forecast/6001/

FORT COLLINS, Colo., April 10 (UPI) -- U.S. hurricane experts William Gray and Philip Klotzbach say they expect a busy 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, with as many as 15 named storms.

The Colorado State University scientists in their April forecast said they also anticipate an above average probability of major hurricanes making landfall in the United States.

Gray and Klotzbach said they expect 2008 will have about eight hurricanes (the average is 5.9) and four intense hurricanes (average is 2.3).

They also predict:

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[NMDemDist2]

1. they were totally wrong last year

let's hope it's the same this year

[Lance_Boyle]

2. they were WAY off last year.

But this year the Southeast could stand a heavy dose of hurricane rains.

[jpak]

3. I hope so too

hurricanes suck suck suck

[phantom power]

4. And hope they aren't wrong the same way they were in 2005.