Based on current and projected climate signals, a forecasting agency is predicting that Atlantic basin and land-falling hurricane activity in the U.S. in 2008 will be 90 percent above the norm over the past 60 years.
Tropical Storm Risk (TSR), a London-based group led by the Benfield UCL Hazard Research Center, made this adjusted forecast on Aug. 6, 2008, which compares to a previous report made on July 4 that predicted atmospheric conditions 35 percent above-norm.
According to TSR, the forecast has increased in severity due to the increased tropospheric wind patterns, which favor increased hurricane activity that appeared in July. These unusual wind patterns tend to persist through the main hurricane months of August and September.
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