Dr William Gray of Colorado State University, USA, is recognised as one of the world's foremost experts in Atlantic hurricane prediction. And he reckons that the Caribbean and US Southern States are in for a hard time this year.
"We continue to call for a very active Atlantic basin hurricane season in 2007. Landfall probabilities for the United States coastline are well above their long-period average." He goes on to predict 17 named storms and 9 hurricanes.