Two more Atlantic hurricanes expected this year: experts
Pastor Dale Morgan
Two more Atlantic hurricanes expected this year: experts*
MIAMI, Oct 2 (AFP) Oct 02, 2007
Two more hurricanes, one of them of major intensity, are expected to
form over the Atlantic ocean this year, forecasters said in a report out
on Tuesday.
In all, four named storms are likely to form in the remainder of the
six-month Atlantic hurricane season, which ends on November 30,
according to Colorado State University experts Philip Klotzbach and
William Gray.
Two of the storms should strenghten into hurricanes, including one
intense hurricane, the forecasters said. A hurricane described as
intense has maximum sustained winds of at least 178 kilometers (111
miles) per hour, meaning it reaches category three or higher on the
five-level Saffir-Simpson scale.
So far this year there have been 13 tropical storms in the Atlantic
basin, four of which strengthened into hurricanes.