Meteorologists Warn The Northeast Could Be Hit By A "Whopper" Hurricane This Year...

Associated Press March 28, 2006 at 11:23 AM

New England could be in for a big one. Meteorologists say conditions -- including warmer temperatures in the Atlantic Basin and cooler temperatures in the Pacific Ocean -- are ripe for the Northeast coast to be hit by a whopper of a hurricane this season.

Ken Reeves, a senior meteorologist at the AccuWeather Center in State College, Pa., said that when the Pacific is cooler, it "essentially drives the storm track further to the east in the Atlantic Ocean basin."

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