2007 Could See a Busy Hurricane Season

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2007/may/09/050905554.html

HOUSTON (AP) - Two national hurricane experts say they expect an especially active storm season in the Atlantic this year, with one predicting 17 tropical storms and hurricanes.

Philip Klotzbach, a research associate at Colorado State University, and Joe Bastardi, the chief hurricane forecaster for AccuWeather Inc., acknowledged Tuesday that similar predictions for the 2006 season were wrong but still think there will be a more active storm cycle this year.

Klotzbach and Bastardi spoke at the Second Annual AccuWeather Hurricane Summit, a gathering of more than 100 weather experts and academics to discuss the coming season with members of the energy industry, whose business can be severely affected by storms.

"We didn't predict very well last year," Klotzbach said, noting that 2006 turned out to be an average year.

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will be hitting hard further up the coast - even as far up as the Northeastern Seaboard. There is always the big threat that Manhattan would be under water with a Category 3 or 4, and that parts of Long Island could disappear. Could be an interesting season.

... the silver lining in that cloud would be that a few more people would
start to take the climate issue more seriously so, in that sense, it would
be a damn good thing to happen.

Now, what devastating phenomena could do the same thing for the inhabitants
of the inland states?
:shrug: