Thursday, December 11, 2008

Shorter Hurricane Prediction - 2009 Edition

Phil Klotzbach and Prof. William Gray of Colorado State University have released their annual December forecast for next year's hurricane season, which starts June 1. Here's a shorter version:

  • It's impossible to predict next year's hurricane activity this far out, you fools....
  • But we do it anyway to satisfy your curiosity.....
  • Even though we have no idea where any hurricane might make landfall, if there actually should be any hurricanes and if they happen to make landfall....
  • Being based on November weather patterns and statistical probabilities, whatever we say could be flat wrong....
  • But we like to scare you....
  • So next year we predict "above average" hurricane activity with fourteen named storms and seven hurricanes, three of which will be doozies.
Coming soon: Dr. William Gray's 365 annual horoscope predictions for 2009!

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