hurricane forecasts

As we had predicted in our article in the May 26th issue of Musings From The Oil Patch,  the hurricane forecasting team at Colorado State University reduced their April 7th forecast for the number of and intensiy of tropical storms and hurricanes this year.  The CSU team's June 2nd storm forecast calls for one less tropical storm (11) and hurricane (5) with an unchanged two hurricanes becoming intense storms of Category 3, 4 or 5.  In addition, the new forecast reduced the combined impact of storms and the number of days for each storm to an average of 90, down from