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Article: Hurricane activity may move up in coming season in the US.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
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- May 22, 2006
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Hurricane activity may move up in coming season in the US
New York, May 22 (PTI) With hurricane season about to begin in the US, experts have said that the coming month would see two-thirds of the activity seen last year, but warned that concentration might move up to eastern seaboard from the Gulf coast.
"We think that the mid to latter part of the season, the heart of the hurricane season, is going to be an especially busy one along eastern seaboard," Joe Bastardi, a hurricane forecaster at Accuweather, said.
"Particularly New York City, if one of these category 3 storms came in with a large storm surge, that'd cause tremendous flooding in ...