Top hurricane forecasters see "hell of a year"

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 5/26/10 | Tom Brown

[NormsRevenge]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (Reuters) – The threat of an above-average 2010 Atlantic hurricane season has increased over the last month and it now promises to be "very active," two leading U.S. forecasters said on Wednesday.

William Gray and Phil Klozbach, who head the respected Colorado State University hurricane forecast team, said they would ramp up their prediction for the 2010 season in a report due out on June 2.

[sten]

check the weather monkey... what’s he say?

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Wouldn’t a hurricane be good for dispersing a lot of that BP oil?
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No,,,any storms at all will only drive more oil into

the marsh,,,

It some areas oil is already 12 miles in,,,(small storm)...

[VOA]

“
Top hurricane forecasters see “hell of a year”
“

Keyword “predictions” attached to this thread.
To see if these experts are proven right.
Or incredibly wrong.

If they are wrong, it’s a two-fer.
1. The USA won’t be devastated by hurricanes in 2010
and
2. The highly-compensated “experts” will be exposed. Once again.

[oh8eleven]

who head the respected Colorado State University hurricane forecast team

[Lakeshark]

The broken clock method of forecasting hurricanes.........

[melancholy]

Ping...................

Nobody is talking about the impending disaster of the hurricane season.

Everybody is worried about the beaches being slammed by oil, and rightfully so. Nobody is talking about what may really happen that would be far more disastrous.

A hurricane feeds on warm water to add strength. In this case, it may weaken over the huge oil slick, but it will “vacuum” oil and water before hitting land.

The entrained (suspended) water/oil/toxic dispersants would be disastrous rainstorms over land wherever the path might be.

Imagine heavy rains and winds hitting people, houses, lawns, crops, and ventilation systems, slick roads causing accidents and the incalculable health and environmental damage.

This government has to immediately start burning as much oil as possible while the gulf is calm. Failure to do that will make the above scenario incredibly destructive and very difficult to deal with in a short time.

[UCANSEE2]

Haven’t they said this every year for the last 2, and been wrong?

That just means the odds are getting better that they will be correct. After all, they can't be wrong every year.

[Jedidah]

Sounds awful. Here’s another article, “Hurricane Could Spread Gulf Spill Far and Wide”:

http://news.discovery.com/earth/oil-slick-hurricane-cyclone.html

[Slings and Arrows]

FTL

For The Lulz?

[Bob Buchholz]

a SWAG is still a guess.

I think this is just a WAG ;^)

[OB1kNOb]

They say this every year! By shear luck they will be right once in a while.

Like economists who have successfully predicted 10 out of the last 5 recessions. ;-)

[melancholy]

Thanks for the link.

They are talking about spreading in the ocean but still nothing about the airborne impending disaster.

I’m really astonished that none of the scientists or weather centers mentioned this very real outcome.

[Cicero]

You beat me to it. I’ll go with Dr. Hansimian.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Great point,,,

I guess any storm that formed water spouts would do the

same thing,,,

I just looked at NWS radar and it shows some small stuff

for the most part,,,

One cell south of Houma mite go through the spill area...

[GOPJ]

A hurricane feeds on warm water to add strength. In this case, it may weaken over the huge oil slick, but it will “vacuum” oil and water before hitting land.

The entrained (suspended) water/oil/toxic dispersants would be disastrous rainstorms over land wherever the path might be.

Imagine heavy rains and winds hitting people, houses, lawns, crops, and ventilation systems, slick roads causing accidents and the incalculable health and environmental damage.

OMG - you're right, melancholy - and all of us in Florida live in areas with Hurricane "rains"... Usually rain's not the problem - it's raising water - storm surge. But this will be much worse - a true ecological disaster.

[GOPJ]

After the storms - when things dry - we’d have much higher risk of run away fires...

[GOPJ]

See post #26 for a REAL ecological disaster...

[SaraJohnson]

Yes, they have a global warming computer model “science” approach. They are bound to be right sooner or later. I hope not this year!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The corrupt public-private partnership between the oil companies and porn-surfing MMS officials will reap huge NEGATIVE dividends, if your scenario comes true.

[Moonman62]

Haven’t they said this every year for the last 2, and been wrong?

They say the same thing every year. There's only repercussions if they are wrong on the low side.