In our world of polarized government and polarized media, where everything is just a matter of somebody’s opinion, we can at least count on the annual hurricane forecasts, can’t we?
Maybe not. The predictions are blowing hot and cold.
The widely quoted annual forecast from Colorado State University, released Thursday, says we can expect an above-average number of hurricanes in 2018. A relatively new player on the scene predicts a below-average amount of tropical activity.
Let’s go first to the Rocky Mountains, where the late meteorologist William Gray turned Colorado State University into a center of tropical cyclone research.
Colorado State predicts 14 named ...