Major Hurricane to hit NorthEast this Year (National Geographic)

[KoKo]

(My question is: "When did Joe Bastardi become a source for National Geographic Magazine?" ...only in the Bush years could National Geographic become such a "Tool" for Propaganda. Still there are many who think Bastardi is an incredible weatherman. But, I think this article is a "CROCK" and in the "Bird Flu" category of "Bush Terra Alerts Part 5")

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Major Hurricane Threat Seen for Northeast U.S., Experts Warn
Willie Drye
for National Geographic News
March 28, 2006

Forecasters for the private weather service AccuWeather say the Northeast may be the next U.S. region to take a direct hit from a major hurricane.

AccuWeather forecaster Joe Bastardi said he sees a "cycle within a cycle" when he compares previous periods of intense hurricane activity with the current cycle of powerful storms that began a decade ago.

"When I study the tracks of past hurricanes and study what we're looking at now, one can only say that it's by the grace of God that the Northeast hasn't gotten slammed yet," Bastardi said.

Bastardi noted that during previous active hurricane periods, the Gulf Coast and Atlantic coast took direct hits from powerful storms, and then the Northeast took a direct hit.

"I'd be surprised if doesn't have at least one and maybe two major hurricanes in the next ten years," he said.

Meteorologist Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, said there's "a much more enhanced chance of experiencing a major hurricane in the Northeast. Whether it's this year or not, who knows?"

Where Do They Come From?

Landsea said hurricanes that make landfall in the Northeast usually begin as so-called Cape Verde hurricanes, which form near the Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa (map).

They usually approach the Bahamas as powerful hurricanes that are then shoved northward by other weather systems over the Great Lakes and southeastern Canada.

More at..........
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0328_060328_hurricane.html

[Caution]

1. please edit your title.

You make it out to be inevitable when in fact the weather service is only saying the conditions are right. There is no need to cause fear.

[KoKo]

4. It's the title of the article....and agree the documentation doesn't

support it. But that was National Geographic's title. :shrug:

[KoKo]

5. Read my comments on what I thought of this article from National

Geographic. And, the title was taken from the title of their article. It's sad that National Geographic is beginning to sound like CNN. They've gone to the "dark/propaganda side."

I'm going to cancel my subscription...I've had enough.

[NJCher]

2. yes

It is one thing to say a "threat is seen" and another to say a hurricane is actually going to hit the northeast.




Cher

[uppityperson]

3. True, no one could've predicted it.

:evilgrin:

Thanks for the article, OP.

[Branjor]

6. Landsea...

what a perfect name for a meteorologist.