US forecasters on Tuesday predicted there would be one more hurricane during this Atlantic hurricane season which ends November 30. A report from Philip Klotzbach and William Gray, of Colorado State University, said that "our October-only forecast calls for two named storms, one hurricane, no major hurricanes …"
"We forecast no tropical cyclone activity in November. Our below-average prediction for October-November activity is largely due to the rapid emergence of an El Nino event (in the Pacific) during the latter part of this summer," they added.
Klotzbach and Gray in August forecast 15 named storms and seven hurricanes. But they have had to adjust their forecast downward this year.
"US landfall has been well below average," they added. "No hurricanes have made landfall along the US coastline this year. Eighty-three percent of the average full season Net Tropical Cyclone (NTC) activity has occurred so far this year."
Last year shattered hurricane records, with 28 named storms, 15 of them hurricanes.
The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30.
