Forecasters predict an above average 2006 storm season this year with perhaps not quite the punch of last year's record activity.
The Colorado State University forecast team said Tuesday that the U.S. Atlantic Basin will experience an active storm season this year, but most likely with fewer intense landfalling hurricanes than last year, the costliest period ever for insurers.
Colorado State Professor William Gray said he expects the current period of major Atlantic hurricane activity to continue for another 15-to-20 years. “But it is statistically unlikely that the coming 2006-2007 hurricane season, or the seasons that follow, will have the number of major U.S. hurricane landfall events we have seen in 2004-2005,” he said.
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