2003 Hurricane Season May Be More Active
From Times Wire Reports
The 2003 hurricane season may have more storms than an earlier prediction, with an above-average chance a hurricane will reach the United States, says forecaster William Gray.
The weakening of El Nino, an unusual warming of parts of the equatorial Pacific Ocean, and the likely formation of its opposite, a cooling called La Nina, prompted Gray’s team at Colorado State University in Fort Collins to warn that storm activity this year may be well above average.
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