Neville Bell Hurricane Barbara the first for Atlantic and Pacific Hurricane Season starting Saturday June 1 2012 - Caribbean theatre for the Class of Hurricanes in Monsters University

It’s Hurricane Season again folks, specifically the Atlantic Hurricane Season, which started early this year on Saturday June 1^st 2013 instead of on Monday July 1^st 2013 as stated in the article  “Hurricane season begins today”, published Saturday, June 01, 2013 1:48 PM, The Jamaica Observer and “ Brace for active 2013 hurricane season, 18 storms named”, Published Friday May 31, 2013 5:34 pm, The Jamaica Gleaner.

Already, the first Storm of the Pacific Hurricane Season, Hurricane Barbara, had struck on Thursday April 30^th 2013 as stated in “Hurricane Barbara lashes Mexico's southern coast”, published 30 May 2013 Last updated at 04:18 GMT, BBC News.

Their Pacific Hurricane Season usually starts a few months earlier. Hurricane Barbara was battering the Western coastline of Mexico even as Neville Bell of Television Jamaica read the News from his Apple iPhone on Thursday April 30^th 2013 at approximately 6:05am on SmileJamaica.

This was a full two (2) days before the official Start of the Hurricane Season. At that point my interest in preparing for our impending doom was piqued. Especially as last year, I was almost stranded at ACCENT Marketing due to a Hurricane that came towards Jamaica and missed as per usual but turned New Kingston into a warzone of flying Debris and Churning water.

Predictions vary on what's expected (again) to be an unusually active Atlantic Hurricane Season. Dr William Gray and Philip Klotzbach of the Colorado State University have called out their Hurricane betting odds for the six (6) month period:

1.      18 named storms

2.      9 hurricanes

3.      4 Category 5 hurricanes

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), is a little more fatalistic and is glad to predict:

1.      13-20 named storms

2.      6-11 hurricanes

3.      3-6 Category 5 hurricanes

Here’s a list of the Hurricanes lined up for this Season:

 

This time of year is an exciting time for Storm Chasing scientists, who usually saddle up their aircraft with electronics Gear and fly them straight into the eyes of the storm to gain direct on-the-ground information on the hurricane itself.

But if you’ve been following the whole development of Drones and their recent emergence in the Public eye, you’d not be surprised that that may be used this year to track hurricanes as opined in the article “Reality catches up with sci-fi in storm drones”, published Jun 02, 2013 by Justin Juozapavicius, Phys.org.

Despite the privacy concerns swirling around the use of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) or Drones, in much the same way the Police would be given extra eyes in the sky, a program similar to the one suggested for the Jamaica Police in my blog article entitled “GOJ can develope UAV's as a means of giving the Police eyes in the sky - Inspiration for Aviators in Jamaica via G.I. Joe Retaliation”.

With the help of our local Universities, Drones and Telecom Providers, drones can be developed coordination with the MET (Meteorological Office of Jamaica) for Weather forecasting. Storm chasing literally on a shoestring as the Caribbean become a theatre for the coming Class of Hurricanes in Monsters University (2013).