Drenching

CSU Ups the Ante: Nine Hurricanes Forecast This Year

With five named storms already charted this year, including two hurricanes, and Tropical Storm Edouard drenching portions of Texas, the Colorado State University (CSU) hurricane team increased the number of storms it said will form in the Atlantic Basin this year, forecasting a total of 17 named storms, including nine hurricanes, five of them intense (Category 3 or greater).

August 6, 2008

Hurricane Dean Could Reach Gulf as Category 4 Storm

With the dress rehearsal of Tropical Storm Erin bringing some Gulf of Mexico evacuations and drenching rains to the Gulf Coast, oil and natural gas producers on Friday were bracing for the real thing to impact early next week as Hurricane Dean continued to strengthen in the eastern Caribbean.

August 20, 2007

Hurricane Dean Could Reach Gulf as Category 4 Storm

With the dress rehearsal of Tropical Storm Erin bringing some Gulf of Mexico evacuations and drenching rains to the Gulf Coast, oil and natural gas producers on Friday were bracing for the real thing to impact early next week as Hurricane Dean continued to strengthen in the eastern Caribbean.

August 20, 2007

Futures ‘Sea’-Saw Amid Tropical Systems

Just as Tropical Storm Bret was being downgraded to a drenchingrain event for South Texas the natural gas futures market wasundergoing a downgrading of its own yesterday, as traders tookprofits in a mid-morning sell-off. However, by mid-afternoon theNational Hurricane Center had anointed the latest two tropicaldepressions-Dennis and Emily-into tropical storms and that wasenough to convince those sellers to become buyers. That was almostenough to recoup the earlier price decline, leaving the Septembercontract to finish the session with only a half-cent loss to$3.059.

August 25, 1999