Next year's hurricane season will be an active one, but with fewer storms making landfall than in 2005, according to researchers at Colorado State University.
In their early forecast for the 2006 hurricane season, researchers Philip Klotzbach and William Gray of Colorado State's Department of Atmospheric Science predict that next year will be busier than the average hurricane season of the past 50 years.
They forecast nine hurricanes and 17 named storms in 2006, with five of the hurricanes considered intense, meaning they will have reached Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale with winds of 111 mph or higher.
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