After the last hurricane season in the U.S., Do you think this year will be better or worse, Why?
142329
Yes I think it will be worse. Mostly because we haven't really had a cold winter so the ocean hasn't cooled as much as it normally would and with the ocean being a bit warmer it's a breeding ground for stronger hurricanes and bad weather.
73199
There's no discernable relationship with the occurence of Katrina - hurricane formation is far more complex than just temperature, and depends much more on local weather conditions.  Hurricanes are powered by warm water, so warming conditions will tend to make storms stronger however, which some see as part of the reason we've had so many strong storms this past year.
891422
yea i believe the Miami Hurricanes will pull off another win before the season is over. Yea they loss alot of their best players in the fight that when down. but i believe they still have team spirit and the fans. and i believe that will help drive them to a victory in one of the last two games. you never know they may win both the games. it all depends on how they enter and leave the game. if they enter the game with the right spirit then i belive they will pull it off.
1085790
The hurricane "forecast" is the best educated guess by the weather folks about what is going to happen months from now.\n\nBased on their knowledge of years past compared to the current conditions, they make a projection about how many storms there will be.  IIRC, they said last year would be a bad one, but nobody predicted 28 major named storms, nor the tracks of Katrina and Rita until they were already on the way.
76062
Read: http://www.answers.com/topic/hurricane?gwp=19
812450
I liked the season with Pedro. That was the only season that was about something. The new shows are so predictible...each year there is a hot girl, a gay guy, an angry black guy, a frat boy, and a slutty girl.\n\nI think it would be great to make them have real jobs and have a dry house...just to spice things up a bit.
214613
Weather patterns change in cycles.  We can expect another active hurricane season this year, in eight years you'll probably see a relatively passive hurricane season.
399807
Like all the islands of the caribbean the best time is on February or January or December . there arent hurricanes, just some occacionals rains, an a lot of sunshine.
995225
I have a feeling it is not going to be as intense this year, compared to last year. Still tho, if I were in in the Gulf region, I would take the normal hurricane season precautions, such as stocking up on water, non-perishables, batteries, and plywood.
1082324
This short-term increase is more so associated with ocean temperatures and their affects on hurricane formation. The tropical Atlantic has been warm, and ocean temperatures there and in the equatorial Pacific have provided a favorable environment for them - wind shear in the tropics tending to be weak.\n\nGlobal warming most likely is contributing to the longer-term increase (e.g., many more storms than normal the past decade).
499086
There is no assurance that New Orleans will be hit by another hurricane, just as there is no assurance they won't be.  While I'm not a psychic, from previous years and studies of hurricanes, it's very unlikely that another hurricane will hit them this year and even more unlikely that a large hurricane will hit.\n\nMany younger adults, mostly people in their twenties, are taking advantage of the large amount of homes available for sale.  While the homes need much repair, a recent college graduate who was looking at a small house in another large city can afford to buy a big house in New Orleans and then renovate it for the same price.  While home insurance is expensive in the city, the price of the home, repair, and insurance still doesn't meet what you'd pay somewhere like California.\n\nThere's also the fact that many people don't have a choice to live somewhere else.  While many people have moved out of the city, most of the people that were displaced by the storm are extremely poor.  They didn't own their homes, many didn't have insurance, and Fema has drastically cut the amount of aid they are giving to people.  However, many of the cities they have been living with are also cutting off aid and so they are forced to return to their broken homes, the only thing they own, and attempt to rebuild (they certainly can't sell their homes in the state in which they are in). \n\nFinally, New Orleans is still a major shipping and oil port and people are needed to work the jobs to get things on and off ships.  My mother's oil company has actually offered large amounts of money and incentives to get people from her KY office to move down there and work.  Hope this helps explain things.
442055
I don't trust hurricane predictions anymore. I think they predicted 16 named storms for last year.
910251
Unfortunately it's supposed to be a mild winter. The El Nino thing is happening again and this part of the country is supposed to be warmer than usual. However, last time we had an El Nino winter we did have quite a bit of snow and a hell of an ice storm(2002). I live in Indiana, about 30 miles outside of Kentucky. I personally feel that the forecasters are wrong and we are going to have a really bad winter due to the fact that we had our first freeze before Halloween. Usually that's a pretty good sign that winter is going to be cold and snowy. I'm hoping for a lot of snow.
632378
Texas will be fine, just like we were last year.  LA on the other hand...\n\nNo hope.  Those silly fools just re-elected the same guy who screwed them last year.
1099588
What sort of time frame did you have in mind?  I'd like to know because I'd better be moving to higher ground.  \n\nUsually I don't bother with this sort of thing, but the recent hurricane season has got me thinking that something is up.  \n\nThanks for the warning! \n\nCheers!
553265
not anymore.\nreasons:\n1. we got our own problems with Katrina.\n2. All the other countries hate us now so we don't want to help them anymore since they will hate us even more and try to kill us.
124844
To which hurricane are you referring to? Hurricanes never have done good. I have been through five or six in the past eleven years and it is not fun to sit through one worring if this is the worst of it. Evacuating is not much fun either as you worry if you have anything left. It is not only human lives that are disrupted or lost, but those of animals and the environment.