British forecasters give predictions about hurricane season

British forecasters are foretelling that the Atlantic hurricane season may not be as busy as their American counterparts expect.

It is most likely that 10 more tropical storms will form from July to November, the British forecasters said Tuesday. An expected cooling trend in Atlantic Ocean surface waters favors fewer tropical storms than in recent years, the British meteorologists said in their first-ever hurricane season forecast.

The British scientists did not predict a number of hurricanes that would form or how many would become strong, as American forecasters do. There is a 70 percent chance that the number of storms will be in the range of seven to 13, according to the British.

Matt Huddleston at the U.K.'s Met Office, a weather tracking agency within the British Ministry of Defense, said its numbers are based on a "brand new forecasting system" using a global climate model.

In May, U.S. government forecasters predicted 13 to 17 tropical storms in the season that runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists said they expect seven to 10 tropical storms to become hurricanes and three to five of them in the strong category.

Colorado State University researcher William Gray predicted double-digit tropical storm numbers. Gray predicted 17 named storms and nine hurricanes, five of them intense.

The Atlantic season has already had two named storms, Andrea and Barry.

The U.S. government and Gray will update their seasonal predictions in August.

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Author`s name Angela Antonova
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