Dr. William Gray and his team at the Colorado State University have forecast another busy hurricane season, with the probability of at least 17 named storms forming in the Atlantic basin. The team said nine of the storms are likely to develop into hurricanes with five of the major storms reaching at least a Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane measurement scale.
"It is statistically unlikely that the coming 2006 hurricane season, or the seasons that follow, will have the number of major hurricane U.S. landfall events as we have seen in 2004-2005," Gray said in a statement.
