And while Hurricane Dean played havoc with Belize exactly one year ago tonight if the Doppler radar we told you about yesterday had been installed, better preparations could have been made, even if at the end of it there’s nothing that can be done to resist the fury of a storm. The new Doppler radar won’t be operational until late September but that will be just in time. And that’s because a revised forecast for the hurricane season says the worst is yet to come. Acting Chief Meteorologist Ramon Frutos broke it down for us.
Ramon Frutos, Acting Chief Met Officer
“There is a close co-relation between the number of storms that form before the 15th of August and what the rest of the season will be. Although when you pull out the data for 2005 and the year 2000 out of the database the relationship drops off a little bit but when you put those in and other years there is a close relationship indicating that if you have five named storms or more before the 15th of August then the rest of the season will continue to be very active and that is basically what we have this year.
So this radar then, if the season should continue to extend into the latter part of October and through November and, you know it goes through to November and during November we have a drop in the amount of activity, then this radar will help us during the latter part of this hurricane season.”
Tropical Storm Fay is still floundering off Florida’s west coast.
