Heavy Hurricane Season Predicted for Georgia and North Carolina

Window film dealers in the Georgia and North Carolina areas may want to throw a copy of the Weather Research Center’s® recent forecast into their sales presentations. The Houston-based center forecasts a 90-percent chance of the coastal areas from Georgia to North Carolina experiencing the landfall of a tropical storm or hurricane in 2008.

“Homeowners in Georgia and North Carolina coastal areas need to be especially cautious this year,” says Jill F. Hasling, fellow and certified consulting meteorologist with the Weather Research Center. “Other areas of concern include West Florida with a 70-percent chance, and Louisiana to Alabama plus the Eastern Coast of the United States, which all have a 60-percent chance of a landfall.”

The outlook forecasts at least 11 named storms in the 2008 season with six of the tropical storms intensifying into hurricanes. The center also says it should be a long season, with a 30-percent chance of tropical cyclones in May and a 10- percent chance of tropical cyclones in December.

www.wxresearch.com/outlook