Forecaster Sees Fewer Atlantic Hurricanes in 2005
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Next year&#39;s Atlantic hurricane season will again be more active than usual but is unlikely to be a repeat of this year&#39;s disaster, a noted storm forecaster said on Friday.
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The Colorado State University hurricane research team renewed its forecast for an "above average" 2007 Atlantic storm season on Thursday and predicted 17 tropical storms, with nine growing to hurricane strength.
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With the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season a few hours away, researcher William Gray released his newest forecast Thursday still showing an expectation for 17 named storms and nine hurricanes, five of them intense.
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Storm weary residents of Florida and the rest of the Southeast can take a little consolation from the first forecast of tropical weather for next year.
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About one in three people living in Southern coastal areas said they would ignore hurricane evacuation orders if a storm threatened their community, up from about one in four last year, according to a new poll.
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Helene weakened and was no longer a hurricane Sunday as it moved through the open Atlantic, forecasters said.
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Hurricanes Gordon and Helene churned  across the Atlantic with strong winds and gusty rains on Sunday  but neither posed any immediate threat to land, U.S.  forecasters said.
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Far away, off the coast of South America, the waters of the Pacific Ocean are cooling ominously. In the Atlantic, the sea surface remains warm. And overhead, the atmosphere is evolving toward what forecasters said yesterday could be a dangerous hurricane season.
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By Ronald L. Littlepage  With the hurricane season now upon us, I know a lot of folks are hoping the big one doesn't come our way.  Me, too.  But I also know a lot of people are rooting for a couple of tropical storms, nice ones with not much wind and a lot of rain.
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Conditions are "becoming less favorable" for a low-pressure area over the central Atlantic Ocean to develop into a tropical cyclone, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Thursday in a report.
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By Halverson, Jeffrey B THE OFFICIAL TALLY FOR THE 2006 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON STANDS AT nine named storms, slightly below the average of 10 per year. Of its own accord, the statistic hardly seems unusual; nine is just a slight dip below long-term expectations.
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Property insurers are increasingly   attractive to investors as the hurricane season passes its   midpoint and forecasters lower expectations about the storms   they think will hit the United States this year.
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FORT COLLINS, CO -- Hurricane forecaster William Gray expects an above-average Atlantic hurricane season next year. Gray said he thinks next year will continue a trend of increased hurricane activity in the
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The first Atlantic tropical storm of the 2007 season dumped rain on Florida and was due to make landfall late Saturday but was not expected to cause serious damage, US officials said.
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Weather forecasters have again downgraded their forecast for this hurricane season, this time because of the possibility of a weather phenomenon called El Ni&#241;o.
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Insurers benefit from a quiet hurricane season.
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The hurricanes have come and gone, but the forecast for Florida&#39;s citrus industry isn&#39;t so sunny. Assessing the damage from four hurricanes that ripped through the state in August and September, the US Department