Forecaster sees active Atlantic hurricane season
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- Forecaster sees active Atlantic hurricane season
- HURRICANE WINDS CAUSE DAMAGE INTENSE RAINFALL EXPECTED IN BULGARIA
- Prehistoric hurricane activity is studied.
- Deadly Tornadoes Spur Calls for Better Warnings
- Study reports Corps caused Katrina disaster
- TU Football: Hurricane begins Spring practice: Graham new TU staff…
Forecaster sees active Atlantic hurricane season
Reuters AlertNet – Mar 21, 2007
0: background end –>. 0: inline article box end –>. London-based forecaster Tropical Storm Risk on Tuesday said the six-month season which begins on June 1 was expected to bring 17 tropical storms of which nine will strengthen into hurricanes with winds of at least 74 miles (119 km) per hour. Four of those are expected to become more destructive "intense" hurricanes TSR said. The long-term average for the Atlantic is for 10 storms to form during the hurricane season and for six of those to reach hurricane strength. The United States emerged unscathed from the 2006 season after it spawned a below-average nine storms of which five became hurricanes… It raised the projected activity level because of the sudden dissipation in February of last year’s El Nino weather phenomenon. An unusual warming of the eastern Pacific waters El Nino events tend to suppress Atlantic storm activity. ther experts including hurricane forecast pioneer Dr. William Gray and his team at Colorado State University have also warned that the 2007 hurricane season is likely to be busier-than-average. The relative calm of last year’s hurricane season which forecasters had mistakenly predicted would be busy came on the heels of a record 28 storms and 15 hurricanes in 2005 and only a slightly less furious season in 2004. AlertNet news is provided by.
HURRICANE WINDS CAUSE DAMAGE INTENSE RAINFALL EXPECTED IN BULGARIA
Sofia Echo – Mar 21, 2007
National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology director Konstantin Tsankov said that wind speed was higher than the usual. Wind speed in Sofia by noon reached 9. In Stara Zagora it reached 18.
Prehistoric hurricane activity is studied.
Free with registration – UPI NewsTrack – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 21, 2007
–>CPYRIGHT 2007 United Press International BATN RUGE La. March 21 (UPI) — A U. -led study of prehistoric hurricane activity suggests the chance of a category 4 or 5 storm hitting a Gulf of Mexico location is 0.
Deadly Tornadoes Spur Calls for Better Warnings
NPR – Mar 21, 2007
” Almost 200 tornadoes have been reported across the country this year including one that tore through Enterprise Ala. collapsing a roof at the local high school. Another tornado system in central Florida killed more than 20 people in the middle of the night. Related NPR StoriesMarch 21 2007.
Study reports Corps caused Katrina disaster
USA Today – Mar 21, 2007
Army Corps of Engineers at fault for the floods that followed Hurricane Katrina a newspaper reported Wednesday. It said the Corps ignored hurricane research built levees and floodwalls lower than Congress ordered and… “It’s one thing to use modern state-of-the-art computer modeling and determine what happened and the other teams did a very good job of that” he said. “But the only way to really understand if mistakes were made was by relying entirely on using the (engineering) tools the corps would have used — or should have used — when they did their designs. A spokesman for the corps’ hurricane protection office in New rleans said officials there have not yet seen the report and had no comment. Among key findings:The Corps based its designs on research through 1959 doing nothing to strengthen them when research in 1972 and 1979 increased the projected strength of the “model storm” the system was supposed to protect against. That went against the congressional mandate to protect against the most severe threat that could be expected van Heerden said. “ur research shows very clearly that the standard was changed but the corps just kept going about its business as if nothing happened” van Heerden said. Katrina a Category 3 storm when it made landfall fell far short of the expectation of the most severe hurricane.
TU Football: Hurricane begins Spring practice: Graham new TU staff…
Free with registration – Tulsa World – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 21, 2007
21–Don’t blink or you’ll miss something. The University of Tulsa football team opened spring drills Tuesday working at a blistering pace in Skelly Stadium.