# Weather Shift Reduces Storm Forecast 

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The prediction efforts of a weather forecast group that warned of a big hurricane season have been blown off track by unusual weather patterns, said a spokesperson for the predictors.

Brad Bohlander with the Colorado State University hurricane forecast team in Fort Collins, Colo., said that "very atypical changes" in " a very non-normal year" are the reason the group now says there will be three hurricanes for the region--down from the six predicted on May 31.

His comments came as Tropical Storm Fay was looming in the Gulf off the coast of Texas. The forecasters said two other tropical storms could be expected this month.

Unusual conditions that the Colorado group said had upset their forecast included stronger than average upper tropospheric westerly winds throughout the Atlantic tropics.

Sources:
- National Underwriter (http://www.nationalunderwriter.com/pandc/hotnews/viewPC.asp?article=9_6_02_15_6435.xml)