Forecasting experts are predicting another intense year for hurricane regions again in 2006. “We foresee another very active Atlantic basin tropical cyclone season in 2006,” states a report from a well-known weather forecasting team including long-time forecasting guru William Gray of Colorado State University. The team’s 2006 forecast calls for 17 named tropical storms; an average season has 9.6. The report also calculates an 81% chance that at least one major hurricane will hit the U.S. coast in 2006.

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