Sunday marks the start of hurricane season, but the forecasting
process to predict this season's outlook has been going on for
months. The impact of this multi-decadal cycle, and what it's
showing is we have weaker trade winds and a light shear.
Translation -- this is expected to be a busy hurricane season.
With the official start to hurricane season just days away, the
national weather service office in Wilmington is monitoring
conditions closely. National Weather Service science &
operations officer Reid Hawkins said, "You always have to keep
monitoring what's happening. Now with the technology that we
have in the last 30 to 40 years, hurricanes don't sneak up on us
anymore." Even with a warning, predicting the pattern of a
hurricane is a complicated process. Years of experience and
scientific know-how goes into forecasting the weather. The first
step in the forecast process is communication. The National
Weather Service office in Wilmington is a 24 hour-a-day, seven
days a week operation. As a storm approa