FREDERICTON - The Canadian Hurricane Centre says people living in Eastern Canada should be ready for a stormy fall as forecasters warn that conditions are right for a turbulent close to the hurricane season.
Peter Bowyer of the hurricane centre in Dartmouth, N.S., says meteorologists are currently watching unsettled weather off Florida that could spell trouble for Eastern Canada if it develops over the coming week.
Bowyer says it's always a bit of a guessing game, but the growing frequency and intensity of tropical storms and hurricanes means it is increasingly likely Eastern Canada will be affected in some way during the hurricane season, which ends in November.
U.S. hurricane expert William Gray is predicting above-average activity for the remaining three months of the season, with six more hurricanes, three of them major.
Gray and his team at Colorado State University say a combination of a weak La Nina and low pressure readings in the Atlantic usually indicate an active 2007 season.
It is already a year for the record books, with two powerful Category 5 hurricanes _ Dean and Felix _ making landfall within weeks of each other. As well, Atlantic Canada already has felt the effects of one major storm as heavy rain and wind from tropical storm Chantal lashed Newfoundland and Labrador.
