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NOAA: Starting Spreading the Ooze
Bad news issued today by the nation’s most-recognized hurricane forecasting agency.
Bad news issued today by the nation’s most-recognized hurricane forecasting agency:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued its 2010 hurricane season forecast, predicting one of the strongest seasons on record — and reiterating fears that the Gulf oil spill may be impacted by the severe weather….
NOAA’s forecast predicts as many as 23 named storms during the Atlantic hurricane season, with 3 to 7 becoming serious enough to be classified as major hurricanes. Named storms come with top winds of 39 mph or higher. The agency worries that as many as 14 could turn into hurricanes, with winds in excess of 74 mph, and 3 to 7 could be category 3, 4, or 5 storms with winds of at least 111 mph.
Three to seven? Fits the same range as this expert, doesn’t it?
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Nick| 5.27.10 @ 12:56PM
We all know how accurate they were in 2006, don't we.
BigJava| 5.27.10 @ 2:19PM
OK, so this will be Obama's fault, right?!
Campy| 5.27.10 @ 3:52PM
Oh no, it will still be W's—and it was his fault that 2006 proved to be a forecasting bust too!
Hurricanes cleaned up Ixtoc1| 5.27.10 @ 5:08PM
" The agency worries instead that the intense storm season may push oil onto shores, furthering the environmental catastrophe that may be facing Gulf states."
oh really? The Ixtoc1 (worst spill in GOM history) mess that landed on Texas beaches was cleaned up by hurricane action. The oil mat that had formed there was dragged out to sea by storm tides. The wave action whipped up inside the hurricane as it passes over whatever slick is left on the ocean will churn the oil into microscopic droplets that will be eaten by oil eating bacteria that are in the GOM naturally. They usually eat the oil from the natural seeps and this will be a feast for them. Hopefully the hurricanes if they do occur will be mild and not damage anything on land and hopefully they will be strong enough to create the wave action to dissapate the slick.