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.