Gray downgrades numbers a tad

[HurricaneBill]

PEOPLE! It is Early August! The peak of hurricane season is not for 5 weeks.

Exactly! Doesn't anybody remember 1998? We had Alex at the end of July. Then in late August, we had Bonnie, Charley, Danielle, and Earl in less than two weeks. Bonnie, Charley, and Earl all struck the U.S. all in the space of a week.

Now there's something that doesn't happen often. Two hurricanes hitting the U.S. in a week or less.

But anyway, 1998 ended up 14/10/3 and produced two destructive hurricanes, Georges and Mitch.

[Derek Ortt]

I have to agree with DT on this one.

Forecasting is not an art, but a science. As new data acquirred, changes to the conclusions must be made if the data suggests that the origional conclusion was flawed