NOAA adds to calls for busy storm season
(CNS): The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its outlook for the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season on Wednesday, which predicted as many as 21 named storms this year. The season begins in one week’s time, and while it’s now unlikely that there will be a pre-season storm for the first time in several years, all forecasters believe the season will be busier than the average with as many as 10 hurricanes, more than half of which will reach category 3, 4 or 5. NOAA experts said this was due to the ongoing La Niña and above-average Atlantic temperatures.
Despite the busy season ahead, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Wednesday that it did not expect any tropical cyclone formation over the next five days. Forecasters there was an area of strong winds in the Gulf of Honduras but it was expected to weaken during the day. Moderate to fresh, pulsing to strong, east to southeast winds are expected across the Caribbean and north of Honduras again tonight.
See full details of the NOAA prediction here.
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Bring it on baby! I bet the looting after the next major storm will be exciting to watch.
Since insurance doesn’t cover hurricane damage, (imagine being forced to have insurance only to not get covered), I bet we have a few more storms every year now that I own a house.
Our kids are force fed the christian fundamentalist doctrine, whether parent approve it or not and we stopped gay marriage, so we should be ok.
I call for NO hurricanes to affect the Cayman Islands during 2022.
Gee, thanks!
Let me check the radar.
Oh never mind.
I’d be more concerned if it was Noah making this claim to be honest.