If 1998 Atlantic hurricane predictions by faculty at ColoradoState University are correct, the four-year period of 1995 through1998 will have been the most active consecutive four years forhurricanes on record. This year’s Atlantic hurricane activity ispredicted to be “appreciably more than 1997 but less than theunusually active 1995 and 1996 seasons.

Still, 1998 should be significantly more active than the averageof the generally suppressed hurricane seasons during the last 25years and especially in comparison to the particularly quietseasons of 1991-1994,” reads a recent forecast from theuniversity’s Department of Atmospheric Science.

Predicted for this year’s season are 10 named storms, 50 stormdays, six hurricanes, 25 hurricane days, two intense hurricanes,four intense hurricane days and a hurricane destruction potentialof 70.

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