Overactive

While the United States and a number of its southern neighbors continue to pick up the pieces from the overactive 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, there is mixed news for the 2006 season, according to the Colorado State University forecast team led by Philip Klotzbach and William Gray. According to the team’s first extended-range forecast for the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, the United States faces another very active hurricane season, but with likely fewer land-falling intense hurricanes than in 2005, which the team deemed the “costliest, most destructive hurricane season ever.”