NOAA Issues 2008 Hurricane Season Forecast

NOAA released their forecast for this hurricane season and they are calling for a normal to slightly above normal season. This translates to 12 to 16 named storms, six to nine hurricanes and two to five major hurricanes.

You can find the full report here.

Here you can find the Sun-Sentinel's report, and the Miami Herald's article.

Locally we finally had rain today. When I checked the rain gauge tonight looks like we had about .32 inches of rain which is the most we have had in a single day so far this month. At the same time this broke our string of 93F plus days. Although yesterday we did top out at 96F at PMP.

More tornadoes hit the middle portion of our country today killing one in Colorado. There was a mile-wide tornado that you can read about here. At this time there is still a high risk of tornadoes in western Kansas and a moderate risk surrounding this area. So far today 39 tornadoes have been reported.

The map below will be updated by the SPC through tonight for storm event counts and locations.