The Coming Hurricane Season is Forecast to Be Brutal

I have to say, I am a bit staggered by just how severe the forecast from NOAA is for the Atlantic hurricane year 2010. We know these predictions aren't always spot on, but they get increasingly accurate as the season nears--and now just before June 1, NOAA is calling for 14-23 named storms, 8-14 hurricanes, and 3-7 major hurricanes. In short, they're calling for a year that would almost rival the worst year on record--2005--the year of Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. And of course, it hardly helps matters that we have tons of oil in the Gulf this year. If NOAA's forecast is really correct, it's hard for me to imagine that there won't be a number of storms that get into the Gulf and threaten to disrupt clean up operations and/or to drive oil all over the place. This makes success in BP's ongoing "top kill" effort pretty crucial. ...