CHARLESTON, USA (Reuters) – Hurricane season

Atlantic 2012 is likely to have an activity of

average storms, it is expected that the temperature of the

sea surface is less than last year, said on Monday the

director of the National Center of Hurricane United States.

Bill Read comments are less than a month before

of meteorology major firms begin to disclose

his predictions for the upcoming season of hurricanes that

officially begins July 1 and ends 30 of

November.

Read did not perform a specific on the number prediction

Hurricane expected, but said that you reports preliminary

they suggest that the temperatures of the water may be less

favorable this year to the formation of hurricanes.

“There are some initial signs that show that (the

water temperature) is lower in the East of the Atlantic (the

that was last year)”, said during an annual Conference

on hurricanes in Charleston, South Carolina.

“Perhaps not see rapid development far to the East as

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happened last year”, he added.

On average, the Atlantic hurricane season and the

Caribbean generates a 12.1 tropical storms, of which 6.4

reach hurricane strength.

The region is still in the midst of a very active period in

several decades. In 2011 there were 19 tropical storms and seven

became hurricanes, including three major hurricanes.

In a previous estimate given in December, Weather

Services International (WSI), a firm of private, meteorology

he predicted a relatively moderate, the 2012 Atlantic season

with a total of 12 named storms and seven hurricanes.

During 2011, Irene was the only hurricane that came to

United States and the first since the Ike reached the southeast of

Texas in 2008.

Read said that models of projections suggest there is

less likely to develop the La Niña phenomenon

that favors the formation of hurricanes.

“Last year, we had a big girl,” stated. “It was a

more active than normal year.” “Watching the prediction models

from the ocean, they all say that the girl spent”, added.

The predictions of hurricanes of the University team

State of Colorado, led by Bill Gray and Phil Klotzbach,

would issue its estimate on the hurricane season 4 of

April.

The National Hurricane Center will deliver his prediction

during the second half of may, said Read.