(CNN) -- This year's Atlantic hurricane season is forecast to be above normal like 2004, when four storms slammed the Florida coast.
The annual forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced Monday, calls for seven to nine hurricanes during the coming season, June 1 to November 30. Of those, three to five will be major storms ranked Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane strength.
Monday, May 16, 2005
WOO HOO! Let's get Ready for a RIDE!!
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Criminy. They closed our university for three days for one of the big hurricanes that came thru last year--refugees from New Orleans flooded in, choking the roads, all that. Then it didn't rain a drop. Sunny, warm. So I'm afraid there's another shoe hanging there, ready to drop, made of granite.
Um. That was me. Professor Fury. Sorry.
i took a year off of law school back in 1998-1999 to do grad school work. that was the year the hurricane was to hit/did hit New Orleans. the city was mostly evacuated and a few souls gathered in the Superdome (is that safe-er?). anyway, it turned out there was more flooding from a previous week's rainstorm than there was from the hurricane! I think the question (to you Hud in particular) is whether or not it is believed we are entering into a new weather pattern for the Atlantic, a la el nino on the west coast.
I'll be glad to stay at home this time around.
y'know maybe the warmer gulf temps are working up these storms a bit faster...global warming and all that.
Thanks JASE! This little "friendly neighborhood announcement" of yours just sends my memory in to orbit as I somehow managed to live as far away from the COAST LINE OF SOUTH CAROLINA as possible...and yet was in the worst hit part of the state (Clemson area) for THREE OF THEM! NO ONE IS SAFE!
lol...no one evacuates the mountains 200 miles inland...but if a tree limb falls on your roof of your rustic apartment in a heavily wooded area and punches a hole thru it and exposes a GINORMOUS SPIDER breeding ground within the walls ALL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT SO THERE IS NO LIGHT....TRUST ME....I self-evacuated myself after waking up to a gozillion spiders crawling EVERYWHERE in my living room and on the futon wiht me....and on my ceiling...
Thanks Jason! thanks a lot! MESS!
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