Hurricane Forecasters Who Got Mild ’06 Right Warn of Active ’07
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 Catastrophe PropertyThe up-and-coming hurricane researchers who accurately predicted a mild 2006 storm season, despite dire predictions of more established forecasters, said the 2007 season will be much more active — especially in the Gulf of Mexico. Two teams of researchers at North Carolina State University, in their third year of hurricane forecasting, released separate results for the first time last week. One team, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, projected that 16 to 17 named storms would form in the Atlantic basin, including eight to nine hurricanes.
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