Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Not as Bad as We Thought?

Unless you've had your head under the waves (or live away from the East Coast), you must have felt the past months' outpouring of reports on how bad the Atlantic hurricane season is going to be. The season, which is two months old as of today (it runs until the end of November) has so far seen only three tropical storms and no hurricanes. (The third storm, Chris, has only just formed in the past 24 hours.)

Well, now comes a report that the season may not be as bad as was previously predicted.

So, can all of us along the coast breathe easier? No, because these long-range forecasts have hardly anything to do with what will happen in your neck of the woods. And any--or all--of them could be wrong.

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