The 2010 Hurricane Season opens today. Time to get your Hurricane Preparedness Plan in order, check those radios and flashlights and make sure you're stocked up on batteries an such.
Across the entire Atlantic Basin for the six-month season, which begins June 1, NOAA is projecting a 70 % probability of the following ranges:
- 14 to 23 Named Storms (top winds of 39 mph or higher), including:
- 8 to 14 Hurricanes (top winds of 74 mph or higher), of which:
- 3 to 7 could be Major Hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5; winds of at least 111 mph).
New for this year is the National Weather Service will use a new hurricane scale this season called the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. The scale keeps the same wind speed ranges as the original Saffir-Simpson Scale for each of the five hurricane categories, but no longer ties specific storm surge and flooding effects to each category.
For the latest news go to the National Hurricane Center and Alachua County Emergency Management.
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