2007 hurricane season predicted to be “very active”

As you get ready to enjoy your Easter Holiday the last thing you may want to think about is hurricanes. But with only two more months to go before the season, this year’s prediction may very well have you making early preparations. Well known forecaster professor William Gray says that 2007 will be a very active hurricane season. Gray’s research team at Colorado State University expects seventeen named storms, five of them major hurricanes with sustained winds in excess of one hundred and eleven miles per hour. In 2006, an unexpected late El Nino contributed to the calmer season that resulted in ten named storms and five hurricanes. This year it is predicted that the absence of winds caused by the El Nino phenomenon will allow storm systems to remain strong. In 2005 a record twenty-eight named storms occurred in the Atlantic and Caribbean, including fifteen hurricanes. William Gray has spent more than four decades in tropical weather research. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June first to November thirtieth.