So I guess the coin toss came up tails this year.(Reuters) - The threat of an above-average 2010 Atlantic hurricane season has heightened over the past month and it now promises to be "a hell of a year," a leading U.S. forecaster said Wednesday.*Yawn*
William Gray, the hurricane forecast pioneer who founded Colorado State University's respected storm research team, said CSU would ramp up its predictions for the 2010 season in a report due out on June 2.
"The numbers are going to go up quite high," Gray said. "This looks like a hell of a year."
Oh, I'm sorry. Did someone say something?
This "hell of a year" prediction will no doubt be revised numerous times during the summer by Dr. Gray depending upon how many rum-spiked umbrella drinks he consumed Tuesday night.
The good doctor was attending a hurricane conference in Fort Lauderdale along with other attention-starved prognosticators like Craig Fugate...
Federal Emergency Management Agency director Craig Fugate, who spoke at the same hurricane conference in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, seemed exasperated by public attention to the oil spill as another potentially deadly hurricane season looms over the Caribbean and the U.S. Atlantic seaboard.Sadly, Craig is wrong.
"It concerns me that we're talking about the oil spill and we're not talking about hurricane season," Fugate told reporters.
What most Americans will be talking about today is neither the oil spill or hurricane season.
We have our priorities.
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5 comments:
Haven't they been predicting an active hurricane season with major storms making landfall the past handful of years? And when it's all said and done, hurricane season came and went with a yawn...
I think he does this so insurance companies have an excuse to raise rates.
I agree. All the hype helps insurance companies in their attempt to repeatedly raise rates. It also gives the weatherman something to do.
If I had to guess based on what I know about Fugate (which is only a little), I'd say his main focus is always the safety of human life...all else be damned. The oil spill is a tragedy which will affect generations and change the local culture of the affected Gulf region, But beyond those men who died in the explosion, there is no human crisis that FEMA can remedy. So, they look to the horizon to see the troubles that may come.
I don't agree that our attention should be shifted from the spill, but I think that having our bureaucrats loudly advocate unpopular ideas is a very good thing. That discussion, and an ensuing loud pushback from the EPA, is exactly the policy discourse we are missing (as opposed to politician jockeying over the legality of being offered an administration post).
I don't have anything positive to say about Gray, though.
-g
Ive been predicting at least one major hurricane this year for some time now. I base my theory on the weather temperatures we've experienced. The last time I remember it being cold as late in the year as it was this year was the year we got Katrina & Wilma.
SteveBM - weatherman extrodinaire
I've seen more lizards running around this year. Last time there were this many lizards was the summer of 1992.
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