Tuesday, October 5th, 2004 — William Gray, head of the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University, expects a "somewhat average" finish to this year‘s unusually active hurricane season, which has smashed Florida with four deadly storms since mid-August. Hurricane season runs from June through November.
"We‘re not forecasting any major storms the rest of the year," says Gray, who predicted in March that at least one major hurricane would hit the USA.
Gray‘s team, which today will be announcing its storm-season outlook, predicts three more "named" tropical storms, two of them hurricanes with winds of 74 mph or more.