Experts, 06 will not be as bad as 2005.

[HouTXmetro]

Experts: Hurricane Season Won't Match '05 By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ, Associated Press Writer

MIAMI - The next Atlantic hurricane season could produce up to 16 named storms, six of them major hurricanes, suggesting another active year but not the record pounding of 2005, scientists said Monday.

Some parts of the Gulf Coast are only starting to rebuild from Hurricane Katrina, the worst of last year's record 28 named storms, 15 of which were hurricanes, seven of them Category 3 or higher.

While such a season is not predicted this year, National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield warned: "One hurricane hitting where you live is enough to make it a bad season."

Meteorologists said water in the Atlantic is not as warm as it was at this time in 2005, produce the 2005 storms will happen again this year, but the Pacific Ocean water conditions known as El Nino and La Nina will not affect the season.

The predictions came on the same day that an independent report showed the New Orleans levee system was routinely underfunded and therefore inadequate to protect against hurricanes. It also called for an overhaul of the agencies that oversee flood protection.

[HouTXmetro]

Didn't they say 05 wasn't going to be as bad as 2004? So much for that.

[Rainband]

It only takes one. No matter how busy or quiet a season is

[cycloneye]

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic ... 30&start=0

The media outlets got that information from the NOAA outlook which is posted as a sticky.To not have many threads about the same theme of NOAA forecast this thread is locked.