Bring on the hurricanes

Posted at 2:46 PM on April 7, 2010 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)
Filed under: Weather

This could be a fairly busy year for hurricanes, according to the experts.

Eight hurricanes are expected along with over a dozen tropical storms. Haiti, in particular, could be in for a rough season, the forecasters at Colorado State University said today. The report describes the coming season as "above average."

Last year, the, the forecasters predicted 6 hurricanes and a dozen tropical storms, in what turned out to be a very quiet year for hurricanes. There were only nine tropical storms and three hurricanes.

Here are this year's names:

Alex
Bonnie
Colin
Danielle
Earl
Fiona
Gaston
Hermine
Igor
Julia
Karl
Lisa
Matthew
Nicole
Otto
Paula
Richard
Shary
Tomas
Virginie
Walter

Ugh, i hope hurricane Colin never does any damage anywhere. I don't want to get "oh like the hurricane" for the rest of my life...