| After
a below average 2006 |
| Active
2007 Atlantic hurricane season is forecast |
agencies
The
2007 Atlantic hurricane season will be busier-than-average
with an expected 14 tropical storms, of which
seven will strengthen into hurricanes, a noted
forecasting team founded by Dr. William Gray
said on Friday.
The prediction for a busy year by the Colorado
State University forecasters was the second in
two days from reputable forecasters to warn that
the below-average 2006 season was likely to be
just a lull in an extended period of heightened
Atlantic storm activity.
The CSU team, led by Gray and Philip Klotzbach,
failed as did other forecasters to accurately
foresee that the 2006 season would be a modest
compared to ferocious hurricane seasons in both
2005 and 2004.
The hurricane experts said they had failed to
take into account the unexpected formation of
an El Nino weather phenomenon in the eastern
Pacific, which tends to dampen Atlantic storm
activity.
The CSU team said in its first forecast for the
2007 storm season, which begins on June 1, that
of the seven hurricanes foreseen, three were
expected to become "intense" hurricanes,
with winds exceeding 111 miles per hour (178
km per hour).
"
The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season is expected
to be more active than the average 1950-2000
season," Klotzbach said in a statement.
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| Singer
died on November 8th 1980 in New York City |
| Yoko Ono
not ready to forgive Lennon's killer |
agencies
Yoko
Ono has called for the anniversary of John Lennon's
death to become a worldwide day of forgiveness
but said she could not yet absolve her husband's
killer.
"
Every year, let's make December 8 the day to
ask for forgiveness from those who suffered the
insufferable," she said in full-page newspaper
advertisements.
"
To the people who have also lost loved ones without
cause: forgive us for having been unable to stop
the tragedy."
She thanked all those who wrote to her at
this time every year to say they were thinking
of
her and her husband.
She said Lennon was "shot and killed at
the prime of his life, at age 40, when he had
so much life ahead of him."
"
As the widow of one who was killed by an act
of violence, I don't know if I am ready yet to
forgive the one who pulled the trigger.
"
I am sure all victims of violent crimes feel
as I do. But healing is what is urgently needed
now in the world."
Mark Chapman, the obsessed Beatles fan
who gunned down Lennon in 1980 outside
his New
York apartment,
remains in jail and was denied parole for
a fourth time earlier this year.
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