Hurricane season could match '05: UN

[tocqueville]

By Mica Rosenberg
Thu Mar 2, 11:47 AM ET

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - This year's hurricane season could match the record breaking destruction caused by storms in 2005, the United Nations warned.

In 2005, an unprecedented 27 tropical storms, 15 of which became full-blown hurricanes, battered Central America and the U.S. Gulf coast, killing more than 3,000 people and causing tens of billions of dollars in damage.

"We have reason to fear that 2006 could be as bad as 2005," Jan Egeland, the undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs who coordinates U.N. emergency relief, told Reuters on Wednesday.

"We have had a dramatic increase in climate related natural disasters and at the same time we have more vulnerable people, so it's a double effect," he said in Guatemala, where he is meeting Central American leaders to plan for future disasters.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060302/wl_nm/weather_hurricanes_dc

[MadMaddie]

1. So the United Nations has to put a report out like this...

And the US can't do it.....?

Well folks I gotta feeling the "Hurricane" season is going to be beyond bad...

[Skidmore]

2. So why have we been moving people back into NO before

the levees are fixed? I want NO to rise again, but this scares me a lot.

[MazeRat7]

3. Certainly it will be "slightly better or "slightly" worse than last year..

in other words, it will be similar since the cyclic nature of these weather patterns do not abruptly change.

The real question is where...


MZr7

[AX10]

4. Uh Oh, Bush only has a 34% approval rating.

Another natural disaster may come and * has a very little cushion to fall on.

[tatertop]

5. That's why he is building concentration camps in the US of A

The American insurgents will be dealt with swiftly

[DavidDvorkin]

6. I think it'll be worse

I think it'll probably be quite a bit worse.

Even if that's not the case, the trend is there. On the average, hurrican seasons will keep getting worse.

[rkc3]

8. If the Gulf of Mexico continues its warming trend, it's likely to be

worser than last year. And it might considering the amount of crap dumped into it following the two big storms that hit TX and LA.

[Virginia Dare]

7. I'm very pessimistic about the coming year..

I just have a feeling that some very bad things will be happening, disasters, both man-made and natural.

[murray hill farm]

9. And fortunately for me...

i have just sold my house here on Isla Mujeres....and will leave with check in hand in about a week....unless hurricane season also starts 3 mos early this year..hehehe! I, too, believe that the hurricanes will just get worse each year...the water temps here have never really cooled this winter...and will start out the season already very warm..and i believe that this year will be much worse than last.

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. It will be worse. This winter has been the warmest since the 1800s

and the Gulf waters will be even warmer than they were last year.

[madrchsod]

11. winter? what winter?

what did we have two weeks that were below 10 degrees? we`ve had no snow out here that amounted to anything like the past.

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. I know. I can't remember EVER having my doors opened

in November, December, January and Februrary before! Illinois has always had BRUTAL winters. When I was young, I WALKED to school and it was COLD! We were also guaranteed at least a few snow days off from school because of the blizzards. That hasn't happened for the last 3 years in our school district.