PHILIPSBURG--Disaster Coordinator/Fire Chief Winston Salomon is calling on the community to be prepared for the hurricane season with three days left to go before the official start of the season.
He advised everyone to make sure all plans were in place as two tropical storms, Alberto and Beryl, have formed well before the official start of the season.
The second named storm made landfall after midnight on Monday in Florida bringing rain and winds gusts up to near hurricane force. Beryl was later downgraded to a tropical depression, but before that it brought heavy rain and outages (23,000 households left without power in the states of Florida and Georgia), as it hit the South-Eastern coast of the United States.
Colorado State University hurricane team Phil Klotzbach and William Gray, in early April, forecasted reduced activity for the hurricane season with 10 named storms of which four will become hurricanes, and two of those will become major hurricanes with over 111 miles per hour winds.
Since that forecast, the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the parent body of the National Hurricane Centre (NHC) out of Miami, Florida, last Thursday issued their own forecasts predicting a near-normal 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.
This revised forecast has to do with conditions in the atmosphere and the ocean favouring a near-normal season, which entails nine to 15 named storms of which four to eight can strengthen to become hurricanes, and of those one to three can become major hurricanes.
Based on the period 1981-2010, an average season produces 12 named storms with six hurricanes including three major hurricanes.
The remaining names of potential storms for the 2012 season are: Chris, Debby, Ernesto, Florence, Gordon, Helene, Isaac, Joyce, Kirk, Leslie, Michael, Nadine, Oscar, Patty, Rafael, Sandy, Tony, Valerie and William.
The annual hurricane season runs through to November 30.
Russell Brand Mervyn King Oscars Niclas Alexandersson Mark Bright Robert Schumann
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