As the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season gets underway today, most forecasters indicate that it will be a busy year for storms with a high likelihood of a hurricane making landfall along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.
Maintaining its earlier predictions made on April 6, The Colorado State University hurricane forecast team of Phil Klotzbach and William Gray is still calling for 16 named storms in the Atlantic basin for the 2011 season, with five developing into major hurricanes.
"We are predicting the same levels of activity that were forecast in early April due to favorable atmospheric and oceanic conditions in the tropical Atlantic," says Gray, who is in his 28th year of forecasting at Colorado State. "We continue to anticipate an above-average probability of United States and Caribbean major hurricane landfall."
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