Hurricanes - 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season

Forecasters predict the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season should have above-average activity, with 3 major hurricanes and a good chance that at least 1 of them will make landfall in the United States.

The 2006 surprise El Nĩno — a warming in the Pacific Ocean — had far-reaching effects that included changing wind patterns in the eastern Atlantic, which disrupted the formation of hurricanes in 2006, but forecasters say those conditions are likely to dissipate before the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season begins.

Researchers believe the Atlantic basin is in an active hurricane cycle, despite the calm 2006 season. The active cycle is expected to continue for another decade or two, at which time there would be a quieter Atlantic major hurricane period like experienced during the quarter-century periods of 1970-1994 and 1901-1925.

Researchers do not attribute the recent increase in hurricane activity to global warming. Cautions are given not to read too much into the 2 hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005 as the large increase in Atlantic major hurricanes are not directly related to global temperature increase.

Only time will tell if the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season will be as meek as the 2006 season or as catastrophic as the 2004 and 2005 seasons.

The Storm Names for the 2007 season are as follows:

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Andrea
Barry
Chantal
Dean
Erin
Felix
Gabrielle
Humberto
Ingrid
Jerry
Karen
Lorenzo
Melissa
Noel
Olga
Pablo
Rebekah
Sebastien
Tanya
Van
Wendy