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US weather experts forecast above-normal hurricane threat

by Staff Writers
Miami (AFP) May 31, 2006

Caribbean and US coastlines are under greater threat in this year's tropical storm season with five out of nine projected hurricanes expected to rank as intense storms, US climatologists said Wednesday.

University of Colorado climate experts Philip Klotzbach and William Gray said on the eve of the official June 1 opening of the six-month Atlantic storm season that there was an above-average risk of a major hurricane landfall in the Caribbean Sea, and that the US east coast was under a much higher-than-average risk of being struck.

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