So, I’m sitting in the waiting room while my wife is in surgery, being turned into a cyborg, when I notice on the TV playing in the room that Andrea has been named.
True, she’s only a subtropical storm, but it’s still a bit early in the year to be naming storms. Welcome to storm season ‘07, I guess.
While I was grabbing reading material this morning, I noticed that Reuters has a nice round-up of the random-number generator outputs so far:
Overall, the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season will bring 13 to 14 named storms, of which six or seven could strike the United States, AccuWeather said.[...]
“The probabilities for this year are well above average,” Klotzbach said. “The idea is, with a more active season, there is a much higher possibility of landfall.”
[The Colorado State team] already has predicted the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season would be far more active than usual, with 17 tropical storms, of which nine will strengthen into hurricanes and five will strengthen into major hurricanes.