Quote:NOAA Hurricanes

❝ NOAA announced its predictions for the 2006 hurricane season: 13-16 named storms, 4 hurricanes of Cat-3 or above, double the yearly average. (It was a below-average year) ❞ ~ NOAA ℹ️ 2006

Full Quote: NOAA announced its predictions for the 2006 hurricane season, saying it expects an “above normal” year with 13-16 named storms. Of these storms, the agency says it expects four to be hurricanes of category 3 or above, double the yearly average of prior seasons in recorded history. With experts calling the coming hurricane season potentially worse than last year’s, oil prices have jumped 70 cents per barrel in New York and made similar leaps elsewhere. Economists anticipate that demand for oil will rise sharply over the summer, when as many as four major hurricanes could hit the United States. ~ Seed Magazine 5/19/06<