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March 31, 2006
2006 Hurricane names
Here is the list of names for the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season:
Alberto Beryl Chris Debby Ernesto Florence Gordon Helene Isaac Joyce Kirk Leslie Michael Nadine Oscar Patty Rafael Sandy Tony Valerie William
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Expert Forecasts Rough Hurricane Season
From the Washington Post:
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- This year's hurricane season will likely be worse than usual, though not as severe as 2005, a U.S. hurricane expert said Thursday.
A record 27 tropical storms formed last year, with seven becoming major hurricanes, including Katrina and three others that hit the United States.
"I think everybody is going to say we're going to have an above-average season here," said Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
He said the new hurricane season, beginning June 1, would not likely set a new record but the center's scientists were witnessing a trend of stronger and more frequent storms.
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March 24, 2006
2004-2005 hurricane seasons 'odd but explainable'
Were the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons all that odd? Can they be explained? Robert Weisberg, a University of South Florida College of Marine Science hurricane expert, and his colleague, Jyotika Virmani, concluded that when a record number of hurricanes lashed the Gulf coasts in 2004-2005 we were reaping what elevated surface sea temperatures (SSTs) sewed. It’s happened before, said co- Weisberg and Virmani, who co-authored a paper recently published in Geophysical Research Letters (Vol.33 No.5) examining the 2005 hurricane season.
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