Rita should maintain major hurricane status until landfall, |
Rita should maintain major hurricane status until landfall. |
Should we get another out-of-season storm, we will use the 2006 named list. |
Some strengthening is forecast ... and Maria could be near hurricane strength by Sunday. |
The forecast track is pointing towards North Carolina, but South Carolina is not out of the woods yet. |
There's no part of Florida that's truly hurricane-invulnerable. |
We are in an active cycle of storms, and there is nothing to indicate that won't happen. It's too early to tell what will happen. |
We have seen a marked increase in the number of Atlantic hurricanes, starting in 1995. This year, things have come together just right, with warm sea surface temperatures and favorable upper-level winds. |
We'll take anything we can get our hands on. |
With that kind of range of possibilities, we're not going to try to pin down anything about where it's going. |