MIAMI (Reuters) - The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season will be very active, with up to 10 hurricanes, although not as busy as record-breaking 2005, when Hurricane Katrina and several monster storms slammed into the United States, the U.S. government's top climate agency said on Monday.
"For the 2006 North Atlantic hurricane season, NOAA is predicting 13 to 16 named storms, with eight to 10 becoming hurricanes, of which four to six could become 'major' hurricanes of Category 3 strength or higher," said retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The most damage is caused by storms that reach Category 3, with winds of 111-130 mph (178-209 kph), or higher on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane activity.
Scientists were way off the mark in their forecasts of last year's hurricane season. The season starts June 1 each year.
The 2005 hurricane season spawned an unprecedented 28 tropical storms, of which 15 became hurricanes. NOAA had predicted 12 to 15 tropical storms, of which it said seven to nine would be hurricanes. Seven of last year's hurricanes were considered "major," while NOAA had predicted only three to five would reach that level.
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We'll have to get used to this, and more. As ocean temperatures rise due to human-caused global climate change, more and more hurricanes will form, including more major ones, and they'll form both earlier and later in the year than the traditional hurricane season.
I say this with the realization that I'll be flamed by the know-nothings, but I'd rather be a lone voice of sanity than a part of the chorus that dismisses science.
Don't you hate it when people try to make an understated point, thinking they're wry when in fact they're cryptic?
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