Hurricane Forecast 2007: Tropical Trouble Ahead
Hurricane season officially started on Friday yet there were already up to two storms in the Atlantic. Many experts have already given their forecasts for this year being an over active one, and the official government forecast predicts the same. As we had mentioned a few weeks back, Joe Bastardi at Accuweather and Phil Lotzback at Colorado State both anticipate a more active cycle this year. This season we have already seen development with Andrea, the first named sub-tropical storm in May. Sunday we saw Tropical Storm Barry dump heavy beneficial rains along the southeast coast and deluge parts of the Northeast. This is an early predictor of what lies ahead. Last spring, similar forecasts were touted following the horrific 2005 hurricane season. But what went largely unreported regarding last year's hurricane season was how quiet it ended up being and how horribly incorrect those forecasts were. Obviously we have yet to know how accurate this year's forecasts will be; only time will tell.