NOAA RELEASES EAST PACIFIC HURRICANE Below Normal Seasonal
Activity Expected in 2005 May 16, 2005 - NOAA, the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, today released its 2005
East Pacific Hurricane Season Outlook. The outlook calls for a
high likelihood of below normal activity. NOAA scientists are
expecting 11-15 tropical storms. Six to eight of these are
expected to become hurricanes, including two to four major
hurricanes. “There tends to be a seesaw affect between the East
Pacific and North Atlantic hurricane seasons,” said Jim Laver,
director, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md.
“When there is above normal seasonal activity in the Atlantic
there tends to be below normal seasonal activity in the Pacific.
This has been especially true since 1995. Six of the last ten
East Pacific hurricane seasons have been below normal, and NOAA
scientists are expecting lower levels of activity again this
season.” The seesaw effect between the East Pacific and North
Atlantic hurricane seasons occu